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...were great friends. They had had a good time together in Washington last July, and it was only a matter of schedule that he had not got to France last month. The differences between himself and the General, the President added with a gesture, were no bigger than a fingernail...
Stalin's bombshell announcement that the U.S.S.R. would exchange representatives with Badoglio's Government caused a lot of teeth-gnashing and fingernail-chewing. It vexed the U.S. State Department, puzzled the British and alarmed Communists. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced coldly that the U.S. would not follow its ally's lead and "recognize" the Badoglio Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination...
...Blame. In Denver, Patrolman Robert Stroessner arrived on the scene of a collision, found Motorist William Monaco nursing slaps and fingernail scratches, found angry Motorist Margaret Koseck now vigorously spanking her dog for interfering with her driving...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...
Helen Perry, 21, of Cleveland, in the 100-yd. backstroke final, beat glamorous Gloria Callen, 17, defending champion, in a fingernail finish-which took the judges fully five minutes to decide. Time...