Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interned Fascists have an easy time away from air raids, with plenty of food, bathing beaches and cinemas, there was a stir of protest in London. The British Communist Party used the incident to claim that the Fascists rioted because they have friends in the Government, pointed a finger at War Secretary Captain David Margesson and Minister for Aircraft Production John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon...
Rascher played with European dance bands, gave up the lukewarm licks after his first date, nine years ago, with a concert orchestra. He perfected a finger and blowing technique of his own, ironed out the wobbles, slithers and wails of the commercial saxophonist. To get something respectable to play, he transcribed from the classics, begged saxophone pieces from contemporaries-well-known ones like Coates, Glazounov, Ibert, and unknowns named Tarp, Jacobi, Bentzon, Borck...
Information on special branches, on commissions in the army, the navy, and the marines, on V-5 and V-6 as well as V-7 cruises, on the three air corps, and on such possibilities as the meteorology division--all this Professor Casner will have at his finger-tips. If he doesn...
...feel that he knows even less than he knew before, this warning just doesn't make sense. For an undergraduate researcher in chemistry, confused and unable to see his special problem in its proper perspective, who comes to his instructor, expecting and receiving advice and counsel, the pointing finger of alarm just doesn't seem to point...
...finger on many another A.F. of L. figure: Jake ("The Bum") Wellner, business agent of the Brooklyn painters; Sam Kaplan, on the executive board of Local No. 306, New York Motion-Picture Machine Operators; John J. Dempsey, international treasurer of the ironworkers. Though a little brown around the edges, their careers have not been blighted. President Green has shouted "We disavow racketeering, gangsterism, and disregard for law most emphatically and without reservation"-but they still have their jobs...