Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resourcefulness than into the planes that flew that day. The raid had been a smashing success. MacArthur's P-40s, doing a job they were never built to do, had sunk 30,000 tons of shipping (three transports), had chewed up Jap small craft, too. Caught with his finger in his mouth, the Jap had never got a single plane off the ground, had been slow on the draw with his antiaircraft...
Suddenly the Vagabond jumped up. "This is what they mean by softness," he shouted at the top of his lungs; and the inmates looked up in alarm, each one putting his finger on the page of his book so as not to lose his place. "This," shrieked Vag, almost forgetting his hangover as he dashed his pipe to the floor. "Away, you manifestation of an era of physical and intellectual decadence," he shouted as he stamped on the offending briar. "That's what I am. I'm soft, flabby, weak. Remember Pearl Harbor...
...come out," she explained later. "It was too bad it was me." Miss Thompson, awaiting her cab, started on her sidewalk neighbor: "My good woman. . . ." The blonde rejoined with a kick to the stomach, got a push in the face. The blonde bit Miss Thompson's right index finger, jumped in a cab and scooted away...
...columnist's finger was a mess. But she had the last word. She re-entered the Café Royal, her finger dripping. "Is there a doctor in the house?" she inquired. "I think I have hydrophobia...
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...