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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members were driven off by a couple of Harvard cops. The token triumph is announced to the people lunching at Lehman Hall, where what is later called a revolution ensues. Someone brings out a record player and starts the then new Beatles album; a girl starts giving a finger painting class; and another person sells yogurt for prices cheaper than Lehman Hall charges. On the next Monday (after the Yale football game) the whole of the Harvard Hall fence is painted with X paint...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Short History of H-R X | 3/3/1969 | See Source »

Even crueler than the physical disabilities that accompany chronic malnutrition is the apparent mental retardation suffered by children who barely survive on deficient diets. Says Hollings: "Many is the time that friends have pointed a finger and said, 'Look at that dumb nigger.' The charge is all too often accurate. But not because of the color of his skin. He is dumb because we denied him food. Dumb in infancy, he has been blighted for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunger: An Underdeveloped Country | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...virtually impossible to get his albums in the United States (though some are now being imported from England). Elmore Jones played slide guitar. This means that he used a special open string tuning in D or G, with a metal ring of some kind on his little finger. Recently an English group led by Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, have recorded albums in which they do exact copies of some of James' greatest songs. Also, Mike Bloomfield did some excellent slide guitar work on the first Butterfield album and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones used it on "King...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

Positions are open for all sports, and you can even write for the News Board whenever and as much as you want. Typing with one finger is the only preliminary requirement, but we'll teach you how to hob-nob with the greatest sports figures of our times--Floyd Wilson, John Yovicsin, Wild Bill McCurdy, Edo, Yaz, Bobby and Satch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Sports Seeks Writers | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

...anti-star occasionally flashes star temperament. Donald Driver, director of Jimmy Shine, remembers that "Dustin cut his finger on opening night in Baltimore. Long after it had healed, he insisted that the stage manager announce to the audience that Mr. Hoffman was appearing with a cut finger. It was a blatant bid for public sympathy." It also appears that Dustin never became too big to pick up small change. Jimmy Shine Producer Zev Bufman calls him "a hard bargainer who held us up for half the profits on the $1.00 souvenir programs because we didn't clear material about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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