Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtrooms in his time to make him a pretty fair curbstone lawyer in his own right. When he went on trial in Washington a fortnight ago for contempt of Congress, he disdainfully brushed aside the aid of a court-appointed lawyer, argued his own defense and promptly put his finger on the soft point in the government's case...
...with my finger in a guidebook. When...
...Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
...deeply entrenched in U.S. custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...