Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson injured his hand in pre-game practice at Andover and must play today with a taped-up finger...
Goalie captain George Anderson injured a finger in pre-game practice and was replaced by Pete Briggs. After six minutes of the third period, Andover's forward Rick Fajardo kicked the slippery ball past Briggs in a muddy entanglement in front of the goal...
...Decisions. He was old and he looked feeble, and gossip spread that he couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a devastating logic. George Catlett Marshall, who inspired some of the same kind of respect, jumped when Stimson beckoned...
...Moving Finger. Victorian ladies sneaked the poems upstairs and hid them under their pillows. Lovers read them aloud, and young men quoted sadly that "The Moving Finger Writes; and, having writ, Moves on . . ." Far into the 20th Century, the contagion persisted, and Journalist-Historian Mark Sullivan, in Our Times, felt himself obliged to record that Omar's bibulous philosophy had had the "effect of sapping and undermining" U.S. morals...
...Moving Finger . . ." it no longer shows...