Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrival of the L. P. St. Clair did than emphasize the fact of U.S. aid to Russia, underline the new and uncompromising U.S. policy toward Germany's friend, Japan. It pointed a finger right at a key problem of World War II: the problem...
...party guests, repeated such well-known Elsiana as the story of how she rejected a gift of $5,000 worth of jewels from Cartier's, instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...
Impatient of cigars, the world waited the week out for Winston Churchill to speak, knowing that in one closed hand he held the answers to all the mysteries. Last Sunday he finally opened a finger or two (see below...
...weeks: This is the age of the index finger-of poking and prying. The baby sits up by himself, plucks a string, creeps, pulls himself to his feet against the railing of his pen. He can say "mama, dada," and one other word. At mealtime he holds his bottle...
...With one finger, lift 350-lb. from the floor. Eight times in five seconds...