Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...logical contradiction, we might consider replacing the dyadic notion of truth, by which a proposition takes only the values "true" or "false," with a triadic or n-adic notion. W. V. Quine mentions this possibility in the introduction to his Methods of Logic: Newman, as a writer with his finger on the mathematical pulse of science ought to transmit to non-scientists what he can about notions like these...
...athlete's muscles rippled as he prepared to shoot the final point of the match; the tendon on his left index finger looked red and strained, but he was a true tiddlywinker and would not flinch. After a fleeting glace towards the victor's decanter of sherry, he squidged, scored, and the Gargoyles had downed Penn 26-9 in last Saturday's match...
...treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger on the button is the one who knows...
...quite covered all the possibilities when it claims that any student has the "opportunity of joining its agency, or using both the Student Employment Casual Office and the agency." A student can register with only the Casual Office if he wishes; one does not have to put one's finger in the HSA's corporate...
...Bishop John Wright, who many Roman Catholic laymen believe will be the next U.S. cardinal. There was a former fisherman (Rufino Cardinal Santos of Manila) and a former count (Ernesto Sena de Oliveira of Portugal). There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders of 500 million people. And in the rear of the procession, carried on a gilded throne, its white silk canopy glistening in the sun. came Pope John XXIII, who turned from...