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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last spring, reacted with practiced dispatch. She stormed into the night to find Walter White, executive secretary of the-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to whom her companions delivered the shattering charge: Winchell had been there and seen it all, and never lifted a finger to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winchell v. Baker | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...raise reluctantly the minatory decanel finger, but the Princeton game is almost upon us and this impels me to call the attention of new students, and those old students who are cursed with feeble memories, to the section in the booklet. Regulations for Students in Harvard College, which deals with public disturbances. Incidentally, although this little publication can not be described as exciting reading, it is short, and I suggest that every Harvard student would profit from a few quiet moments spent in thoughtful study of its contents...

Author: By W. J. Bender and Dean OF Harvard college., S | Title: Bender Manifesto on Riots Warns Students of Hazards | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...Harry Truman's press conference last week, he pondered his answer to a question, twisting the gold masonic ring on the little finger of his left hand. The question was: Why had he nominated General Mark Clark to be U.S. ambassador to the Vatican? Slowly, the President answered that he had studied the matter ever since January 1950, when Myron

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Clark Fracas | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Though they had piously severed relations last year with other basketball-fix colleges, the same finger of scandal was leveled during the summer at players from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Sentimentalist. In Fort Wayne, Ind., attendants at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home noticed a mourner fondly clasp the hand of the deceased, later noticed that a $150 ring was missing from the corpse's finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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