Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invasion from the mainland is only part of the Red threat. Hiding in the Five Finger Mountains, whose timber-clad ridges reach up 7,000 feet in central...
Manhattan Lawyer James V. Hayes, himself a onetime assistant U.S. Attorney General, put his finger on the basic trouble with the Government's antitrust policy. It was a "case-by-case approach," he said, following no thought-out long-range policy. It attempted to regulate the enormous U.S. economy of 1950 with a law drafted 60 years ago. "It may result," said Hayes, "in breakups of large enterprises even though it might be socially and economically advisable to maintain them as they...
Harry Truman stopped and laughed himself. Democrats cheered and clapped. In the uproar, Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin glanced around in bewilderment, then stared perplexedly at the President, who was waggling a finger at the Republicans. Good-natured as it was, it was still a hooting of the President...
...area bases. Agar meets and marries a vacuous blonde, played by Adele Mara as if she were struggling to learn how to talk. The script even dredges up a golden-hearted harlot (Julie Bishop) and throws her at Wayne's head. But the tough sergeant never lays a finger on her; when he learns that her tot is in the next room, he opens a box of Pablum. (Says she, impressed: "You know about babies...
...Light Finger. In Lyndhurst, N.J., perplexed officials were industriously looking for the thief who made off with every one of the colored bulbs on the 18-ft. community Christmas tree standing near police headquarters...