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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: If They Have the Heart | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: A Question of Size | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: With Rancor Toward None | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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