Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school's first director, Talcott Williams, son of a Congregationalist missionary, was a stern taskmaster and a finger-wagging moralist who admonished his girl students not to go around arousing the boys. Williams so burdened his class with assignments that two of its members-Morrie Ryskind, whose lyrics for 1932's Of Thee I Sing won him a Pulitzer Prize, and the late Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky-went on a brief strike...
...what we are for rather than what we are against," said Pope John XXIII last January, while proposing a new encyclical on world peace to a group of Vatican aides.* It was a point well taken: too many papal pronouncements in the past have displayed a finger-wagging, negative tone. Perhaps because of John's injunction to think positive, work on the new encyclical, the eighth of his pontificate, went rapidly; the Pope was pleased with the first draft, had only to pencil in a few flourishes of his own. Last week...
Thus, if elected, Wilson would "dene-gotiate" Britain's agreement at Nassau to build a Polaris submarine fleet, and hope thereby to discourage other nations from building independent deterrents. He is strongly opposed to giving Germany a finger on the trigger, which "would be highly provocative to the Soviet Union and make it even harder to get agreements," particularly on the matter of disarmament. Belying reports that he was "soft" on West Berlin, Wilson insisted that it must remain a free and viable city, and that allied troops would have to be stationed there "for the foreseeable future...
Simenti. When Mponda ambled by on the way to fetch water for her family, Elard the Crocodile dragged her into the river, broke her arm with his lashing tail, and finished her off with his finger-long teeth...
...hilltop campus far above Cayuga's waters-longest of New York's Finger Lakes-daringly coed (since 1872) Cornell soon climbed to first-class status. Down the hill marched illustrious alumni, from F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to Lawyer Arthur Dean, who now chairs the trustees. Other notables: Critic George Jean Nathan, Physicist Isidor Rabi, Authors Pearl Buck and E. B. White...