Word: finger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill, shook Sir Winston's hand, rested his finger on his shoulder, then motioned him to precede. Together, the two old antagonists, who have governed Britain for the last 15 years, walked up the aisle to the Speaker's chair...
Sleepily he moved his finger down the list. Three quarters of the way down the list he was jolted fast awake. It was his own name. Despite the fact that he was a senior member of Aramco's Arab staff, earning the phenomenal Arab salary of $150 a week, and considered himself a pal of the local police chief, the translator was bundled off to jail. Three days later, he and 36 other Palestinian Arabs were deported to Beirut without a hearing...
...year cycles for violinists, pianists and composers, were impressive: the first prizewinner would get a medal, $3,000 in cash, and more than 50 concert appearances. The second and third prizewinners would do almost as well, and even the next nine would reap fair-sized consolation prizes. As the finger-wringing elimination concerts wore on, contestants fell by the wayside under the demands of such compositions as a Vieuxtemps concerto, an Ysaÿe sonata, and a collection of "transcendentally difficult works...
...parted with everything, or they've taken it." In the 82 slaphappy and possibly autobiographical pages Thomas finished, the kid slides from one loony scrape to another, encumbered much of the way with a Bass ale bottle that has unaccountably got stuck fast on his finger...
...spoke from the well of the House, Pillion stood beside a huge bulletin board thumbtacked with clippings about Hawaii's Communists. Pointing at the clippings with an accusing finger, Pillion cried: "The last session of the Hawaiian legislature was a Communist holiday...