Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan pressed a stubby finger to a small gold button one day last week and touched off a $112 million uranium industry. There had been hints that South Africa was in the atomic business, but this was the first firm news that the country was producing uranium on a scale that is expected to net $84 million a year...
Barth's Finger. "I was thinking about infinity," says Paul Tillich, "at the age of eight." Until his 305 Tillich performed his thinking along orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
...noted that of the offensive regulars, end Hank Rate is definitely out of Saturday's game, guard Eli Manes will at best see limited service, and tackle Bob Stargel, just out of the hospital, is unlikely to play at all. And defensive and Bill Weber has a broken finger...
...will stay in Manhattan as long as people want to hear her, then go to Mexico City. She would love to go to Hollywood-"what performer wouldn't?" But Amalia, who freely admits she can wrap any Portuguese audience around her little finger, is frightened. "I don't think I'm good enough," she says...
...from the beginning. Nonetheless, her book is the work of an earnest armchair moralist with an honored American tradition behind her. If, as is very likely, The Folks at Home puts Author Halsey back into the moneymaking nightmare, it will be because she has laid a tremulous but honest finger on a national nerve...