Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep concern" (in diplomatic talk, midway between a cluck-cluck and a posture of anxious finger-wagging) was not otherwise apparent in the President's behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
...first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride by the Lifeman's "I knew as soon as I came in you were happy. You-you look so natural ... Go ahead. We're all listening...
...drives men to distraction at a Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar's finger solves this high-flown problem. Only then, having writ for 123 long minutes, does the moving finger move mercifully...
Time was when Unus, the man who stands on his forefinger, was the sensation of the Ringling circus. This year Unus is no longer with it. In his place is another gent who stands on an even smaller finger, his pinkie; and this only as a curtain-raiser to similar stunts on a swinging trapeze. The circus is better than ever...