Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finger on the Trigger. The rest of the story is Copilot Felix Gaston's: "I thought to myself: I am a dead duck, a goner. Dear Lord, can't I even see my unborn child? I tried everything. I said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave...
...more economical on the gas. I kicked the rudder and started into a turn, but he noticed. He was wearing a wrist compass. He said that if I went back to the Philippines he would kill me. He held that gun cocked every minute, with his finger on the trigger...
Learning to double-lip like Kell meant learning the clarinet all over again from scratch; it brought a different set of facial muscles into play, and required a subtly different fingering technique. Benny had his old finger calluses removed by a doctor, and then buckled down, at 40, to relearning his lifework, acquiring a new set of calluses and an even more controlled technique...
...continuously. His throat was so inflamed he was unable to swallow water and he vomited blood. One of the doctors at his bedside suggested that it was time to end the fast. Sriramulu had lost the power of speech, but he lifted his hand, slowly and unsteadily placed a finger on his lips in refusal. A few hours later he was dead...
...Minister of Trade and Supply, was sacked and jailed for "bad and bureaucratic work"; his assistant, Rudolf Albrecht, State Secretary for Food, was denounced as a "saboteur." Next in line were "a number of leading bandits" responsible for the "month-by-month decline" in coal production. Then the accusing finger pointed at Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S and escaped to East Germany on the Polish liner Batory. There he became Chief of Information (i.e., Propaganda) in Soviet Germany. "A basic change [is needed] in the work of the Bureau of Information," said...