Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special way; she said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called on her gnarled father, an aged and respected laborer on the place. Naturally. Fuller-Sandys handed over a bride price ($100); then Fuller-Sandys slipped a diamond engagement ring on Margaret's finger. It was a brave step in white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Immediately the government fired Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying...
...Whitney Griswold put it thus: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam...
...began bleeding from the rectum in March of 1938," he said. "The doctor found a cancer, smaller than the nail of your little finger, between three and four inches up inside my rectum. They recommended removal of the rectum. Then I'd have had to have a colostomy and evacuate into a pouch, through an artificial opening, for the rest of my life. I didn't feel I could go for this. But the doctors said that for my particular case they could offer an alternative-a temporary colostomy and radiation treatment. I took...
...William Turner. He studied nature for mood, and he was probably at his best when the mood was ugly. His Harlech Castle is filled with menace, and in his later work, he could whip up the sea to a point that the rage of nature-painted with sponge, knife, finger, or even bits of bread-drowned form in a mist of abstraction...
...paper warfare scholars love: footnote-stippled articles in somber technical journals that few laymen ever see. Their principal target was Rome's Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute, one of the two institutions in the world where Catholics can get a degree to teach Scripture.* In a series of finger-wagging papers, monsignori attached to Rome's Curia-principally Paolo Cecchetti, Antonino Romeo and Antonio Piolanti-began hinting that certain teachers...