Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian, and another off-screen kept a sentence behind him in English over his electronically muted replies. Khrushchev, who has never appeared on Russian TV, sat calmly at his desk with his hands folded, grew more animated when the talk shifted to the U.S.-Russian tension. He jabbed his finger didactically as he prophesied that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism." A metal tooth often glinted at the corner of a cunning smile, and his quick but heavy wit, like a fat lady with a flair for dancing, lunged repeatedly in scorn; e.g., "You must do away with...
...wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
...therefore controlled -inner fires. The voice takes over from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...
...refinancing program successfully-and $28.5 billion in short-term notes will become due this year-it will probably have to boost its interest rates. In any case, it can expect little help from the Federal Reserve Board. In accordance with its independent policy, the Fed did not lift a finger to buy notes in support of the Treasury's floundering new issue...