Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central sector the Italians drove a wedge into Greece which was eventually intended to turn southward and meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were...
Hague: "You can't . . . put any filth on me. The man doesn't live who dares do that. The man doesn't live who can put a finger on my moral character. He don't live. Or on my political character. He don't live...
...liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than 300 years after Cortes conquered Mexico, the Church had enormous wealth and influence, did not always use them spiritually. In his 1937 encyclical to Mexico Pope Pius XI put his finger on one trouble when he wrote that its clergy needed "sanctification," urged the necessity for an efficient priesthood. To Mexican Catholics the Pope gave sound advice: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time...
...Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football and racing midget autos in off hours...
...Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors-innovations with which Picasso was later credited by the uninformed. Artist Nolde, father of German "Expressionism," lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Munich, Nolde was naturally included...