Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adding one more upside-down item to an already topsy-turvy world, a waggled finger at TIME'S printer...
...able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring had just told foreign diplomat: "I have definite information that in case the German Army marches into Czechoslovakia the British will not lift a finger...
President Cárdenas crooked his finger at the local head of the Agrarian Commission, ordered him to have the burned houses of the peons rebuilt at once, to supply them with farming tools, guns and ammunition...
...sales clerk gave a silver dollar to be dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading for the stable...
With a pudgy finger President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina last week twirled the dial of his telephone, talked briefly to the governors of his four northwest provinces-La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Thus symbolized was the fact that these sparsely settled but rich grazing lands for the first time enjoyed telephone connections with the world at large. Also symbolized was far-flung International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s successful foreign investment...