Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew-cut young man and the ' attractive woman pointing their fingers at each other (above) are not playing a new finger game. They are talking about the silent man in the middle: Dwight Robinson, chairman of Massachusetts Investors Trust. En gaged in conversation with Mrs. Robinson is TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who spent many hours with the Robinsons working on this week's cover story on M.I.T. and the man who runs it. Gart got to know the Robinsons well by being shadow to Robinson at his M.I.T. offices, visiting the Robinson home, romping...
...staged its famed Five Days' revolt against the Austrian rulers of northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing...
...wagging an avuncular finger, Jacobsson said that with the fall of exports and loss of gold, the businessmen of the U.S. might well take stock of their competitive position, read a "warning about the trend of costs and prices...
...heart beats, or why it is almost a crime when a child breaks a dish and only an accident when a grownup does. Sleeping and waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...
...great enemy of mankind today is nuclear power. Our finger is on the trigger all the time. The possibilities of destruction are measureless," the Governor asserted. "In the battle of nuclear power and man, nuclear energy has the upper hand." Nationalism is a danger because it is the means by which the nuclear power may be triggered, he added...