Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annals of Surgery last week, Drs. Vilray Papin Blair and Louis T. Byars of St. Louis, Mo. told how they made a finger out of a toe. The patient was a pretty two-year-old girl who had accidentally lost the top joint of the middle finger of her right hand. It was not easy...
...They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and their three children, attired in long balbriggan underwear. General greetings." Then Mrs. Fletcher delivers the line which should stop U. S. advertising copywriters in their tracks for a long time...
...head of its aviation department, he took a year's leave of absence, dusted off his uniform and reported for duty. Air Corps men who remembered Jimmie Doolittle's varied talents, his urge to get things done, suspected that someone in Washington had put the finger on just the right...
Many and various were the schools that had a finger in defense training...
...long finger of Cuba poked itself compellingly into the world's ribs last week. Scores of Lions swarmed into Havana for their international conference, found themselves in the middle of a Cuban Presidential election. Amid the traditional Latin-American accompaniment of sporadic shooting scraps, stocky Colonel Fulgencio Batista scored a thumping triumph as expected, complacently proclaimed "overwhelming victory is assured in all six provinces...