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Word: finger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

After sweeping the singles, Coach Jack Barnaby held his regular first and second doubles teams out to prevent, a rout, but the next three pairs all won to keep the shutout. Dave Watts, the usual fifth singles player, was withheld because of a blister on his finger. Later, however, he combined with the regular first doubles player, Bill Goodman, to win the third doubles match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Raps BU Tennis Team, 9-0 | 4/26/1951 | See Source »

...Francisco, sometime White House Favorite Jonathan Daniels moistened a finger to the 1952 convention winds: "I don't know if the President will be available," he said, but Senators Paul Douglas and Estes Kefauver "are possibilities. They are both able men. I'm not advocating any particular candidate, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Matter of Opinion | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...skinned his finger on the typewriter shift key as the loud knock shattered the methodical clicking in his room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...Coast Guard anti-Communist screening program, which was "cooked up by sworn, enemies of this union ... to finger militant trade unionists and bar them from commercial jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Party Line at Waikiki | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Appear at the proper center with the card which will be mailed to them, be finger-printed, and take the test, results of which will be forwarded to the local board of the registrant. The test may be taken only once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft Deferment Forms Out Soon | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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