Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eventful history of the series, the 1951 encounter also stands out as a memorable thriller. Yale came from behind to tie the Crimson 21 to 21, late in the fourth quarter. The varsity's three scores all came in dramatic fashion--a fourth-down finger-tip cacth of a pass by end Paul Crowley, an 84-yard run by halfback John Ederer, and a pass intercep...
...rode a variety of comic animals, slid down a firemen's pole, peeled potatoes and performed the thousand other idiocies expected of a candidate. He accosted people on the street, poked a finger into their chests and told them what he thought about politics. Once he walked up to a man and asked him to shake hands. The fellow refused. A crowd gathered. Romney challenged him once more, and still the man declined. Roared Romney as the man stalked away: "See what I mean about partisanship? This man won't even shake hands with me! This is what...
...Granny. Yet, simple as she tried to portray herself, she was a complicated woman with an agonizingly complex background. Her mother, Mrs. Anna Hall Roosevelt, was a beautiful lady with little capacity for motherhood. Eleanor remembered standing in the parlor doorway at home as a child, "often with my finger in my mouth." and hearing her mother tell visitors: "She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned that we always call her Granny." Recalled Eleanor, "I wanted to sink through the floor in shame...
...finger-waving debates Rafferty successfully fended off Richardson's charge that he was more interested in indoctrination than education. He flooded the state with RAFFERTY-adorned boys' T shirts, plastered bumpers and billboards with stickers blazing his symbols, a little red schoolhouse and an apple for teacher. He won by 237,834 votes, began setting up a committee to study the efficiency of his domain, the 2,700-employee state department of education...
...Hess mission, long after the Allies had brushed it aside. Stalin continually quizzed Churchill about Hess. In 1944, when the Russian armies captured Hess's luckless aide Major Pintsch, who had been released from Nazi prison in order to fight them, they systematically tortured him, breaking one finger a day for ten days, to find out what he knew...