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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would he consider himself a disciple of the "radical right"? Replied he: "I don't think I'm a radical in any position. I think there are some radicals in this country . . . but it's very difficult to put your finger on them. Just who are they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Somewhat Nonconformist | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...responses, Catholicism at prayer is a church of silence. Enter almost any Roman Catholic church in Manhattan or Mantua or Manila: the priest at Mass will be standing at the altar, his back to the congregation, mumbling almost inaudibly in Latin, while the laymen in the pews silently finger rosaries or flip through the pages of their missals to find out what prayer the celebrant has reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Revolution in Worship | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...actress facing assorted personal problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because she loves animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The New Season | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...back room of a New York restaurant in 1930, Joseph Valachi swore his dark oath of allegiance to organized crime. Blood ran from a ceremonial wound in his finger, and the young ex-convict vowed unquestioning obedience to his Mafia overlords. He muttered a final pledge: "If I talk, I'm dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Their Thing | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Noses & Newborn Twins. Lloyd's old-fashioned ways cover a shrewd, practical attitude toward risk taking. Lloyd's prospers by conceiving new forms of insurance, accepting risks that no other insurer would dare, and keeping a wet finger in the shifting winds of world business, politics and science. It recently insured the on-time opening of the New York World's Fair next April. In February, Canada's missilemen scrubbed a scheduled launch just before countdown until liability coverage could be placed with Lloyd's - the only in surer that would touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Taking the Big Risks | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

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