Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the real basis of the bitter conflict that culminated in the charges against Oppenheimer were laid before the finger of suspicion was pointed at him. His mood in 1945 was one of deep conviction that he and his colleagues had to change the world, that they had to triumph over men who might, through stupidity and immorality, betray society-which Oppenheimer, at least, had only recently discovered, and which had become precious to him, as his salvation from what he considered the sin of Alamogordo...
...Yale's William Walter Heffel-finger, '91, was still rawboned, erect, and thoroughly convinced that football was not what it used to be. He scoffed at modern football as a sissy game played by "pawers and taggers" instead of blockers and tacklers. Unlike most old diehards, "Pudge" could prove his point, and he did, at an age when most men shrink from strong exercise. In 1916, when he was 48, Pudge went back to Yale to help toughen up a later generation for the big games with Princeton and Harvard. In three scrimmage plays he laid out five...
Back in Cambridge after a week of practice rounds at the Pinehurst Golf Club of Pinehurst, N.C., Coach Josh Williams reported that he considered the trip "very satisfactory." The weather was excellent, and the only mishap, a finger infection suffered by Bruce Thurmond, will be healed by this week...
Millikin waggled a finger under the Douglas nose. Douglas waggled right back. Clearly outreached, stubby Gene Millikin retired briefly. Douglas accused the Republicans of sponsoring tax measures which would benefit only the wealthy. Rejoined Millikin: "Dear Senator, if that did not come out of your mouth. I would call it sheer claptrap-and it is still claptrap, even though it comes out of your mouth." From his safe distance, Millikin waved a long yellow pencil at Douglas...
...Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror of the Cuban forests [which] possesses the power ... to break the spine . . . with...