Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran withdrawal, and hurt at home by high prices and food shortages, tried to make peace the issue, and Churchill a warmonger. (Churchill on World War III: "The main reason that I remain in public life is my desire to prevent it.") Labor had a catchy slogan: "Whose finger do you want on the trigger? Attlee's or Churchill's?" Attlee, driven by his wife in their little family Hillman, set out on an eight-day campaign trip, singing this same theme as if it were a madrigal: "Peace on earth, good will toward...
...floor tomorrow . . . I'm really going to tear you to pieces . . .' He kept badgering me." Finally, said Pearson, he asked McCarthy: "Joe, how is your income-tax case coming along? When are they going to put you in jail?" "He jumped up, put his thumb and index finger behind my nerves in the back of my cranium right here, and gouged me as hard as he could and said, 'You come out. We will settle this.'" Later, related Pearson: "I was about to pay the hat-check boy, when McCarthy came up . . . pinned my arms down...
...been the bitterest fighting and the most gallant fighting I have ever seen," said Colonel James Adams of Monterey, Calif. "We've tried every approach to that mountain, we've crawled up every finger of the ridge. That's right-crawled. You can't climb up it. It's like a razor. There haven't been any prisoners taken by either side on top of that mountain...
Missouri's O. K. Armstrong put his finger on the big flaw in Truman's case against the press. Said Armstrong: "If we should take the whole amount of the 60% increase on the second-class group, it would only be $24 million. Stack that up against the total deficit of $550 million."* The House ended up with a bill calling for a 30% increase in second-class rates (spread over three years) on both newspapers and magazines, must now confer with the Senate. Most newspapermen and magazine men agreed that this increase was fair enough...
Although the finger is shaky, it is not wavering in direction. Last Spring, the great man of the people from Minnesota, now a college president at Pennsylvania, said it was unfair to the residents of. These United States to limit the number of football games the people could see. A controlled experiment, testing the effect of TV football on the stadia going public, was unconstitutional, according to Harold Stassen, but when he finally decided to give up his charges, he found that he had only succeeded in losing the right to televise one of his games...