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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points an accusing finger at Stalin's accomplices who still hold office in the Soviet Union: "What a path to ruin lies ahead if we cannot cleanse ourselves of this filth festering in our body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn: An Artist Becomes an | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...after a few more games with this mix-and-match line-up Daly wisely discovered the talents of Bob Bigelow and Bill Finger, and that is what he is going with today...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme de la Cramer | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trying to Be Vicious | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Last week he brought a $122 million damage suit against Heublein, Inc., which controls Kentucky Fried. Not that he really needs the money. The Colonel in 1964 sold the system, as well as his "secret formula" and his "Finger Lickin' Good" slogan for $2 million, and earns $250,000 a year from TV commercials, salary ($40,000, now paid by Heublein) and other activities. He charges that Heublein has been pressuring potential purchasers of Claudia Sanders franchises. He claims that Heublein scared away his first prospect by threatening legal action for infringement of trademarks. Heublein retorts that the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYECATCHERS: Finger-Lickin' Suit | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...version of that liberal vision is woven of three ideals: justice, libertarianism, and pacifism. He values social order as a guarantee against violence and deplores the "urge to reach for the dagger" on both the right and left. In his essay on Kennedy's death "We All Had a Finger on That Trigger," Stone writes: "It is not just the ease in obtaining guns, it is the ease in obtaining excuses, that fosters assassination...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Tough as Nails, Honest as Stone | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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