Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss West lights up the darkness of this trial with fierce flashes of observation. But none is so shocking as the reaction of Joyce when he heard the word "hanging" casually mentioned in court. By an unconscious reflex, he raised his hand and with his finger touched his throat...
...critics who snipe at radio must be hitting pretty close to home if Veteran Radioman Ratner wraps himself in the folds of Old Glory [TIME, Nov. 10] ... just because someone puts the finger on a particularly obnoxious commercial or an especially sloppy soap opera...
...Seattle, Dean Rothrock took his five-year-old daughter for a walk with her aunt. The child was between them, holding both their hands, but it was a dark, rainy night, and neither saw the open manhole. The child fell through, tearing a ring from her father's finger. Eight miles away, where the sewer empties into Puget Sound, her body was found in the sand...
...goes far back into that turbulent history. Though his political opponents glibly refer to him as a "Boston Club man," he is not a member of that proud and rigid club. Reform movements used to start in the Boston Club; generally they amounted to no more than a delicate finger-pointing at the city's bland face of corruption. The movement to which Chep belongs has been more effective...
...including orange juice, milk, cookies and a hot lunch. The youngsters will speak both English and French, the two principal U.N. languages; they still lapse into their native tongues when excited. Mrs. Cowles believes in progressive education for the three-to six-year-olds-with the emphasis on carpentry, finger painting and other "creative" games. She hopes her pupils will also learn international understanding. Says she: "Maybe this is a way to build from the bottom...