Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon, a white Cadillac hearse drew up before the entrance and a simple bronze casket was taken inside the hospital. Jackie removed the wedding band from her left hand and slipped it on the President's finger, and then the casket was closed...
...laying a finger on each side...
...mind instead of an open mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with the Generalissimo is that he doesn't do any generalissimoing." And once after a tough session with Soviet delegates at the U.N., he snapped, "They remind me of a difficult fellow...
...paid $10 apiece to help endow the Styles Bridges chair in Government at New England College. Bridges's widow Doloris and Republican Senator Norris Cotton, who is Goldwater's New Hampshire manager, both drew pointed parallels between the philosophies of Goldwater and Conservative Bridges. Proclaimed Cotton: "The finger of fate is upon the forehead of Barry Goldwater." Goldwater contented himself with a denunciation of overcentralized government...
...cannot resist biting the hand that feeds him," the London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill...