Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis' arrival in Oslo streets was also taken calmly by the populace. But this populace was puzzled, incredulous, as 1,500 shock-troopers, hard-looking but amiable enough, only a few of them gripping their automatic weapons, took possession of a city of 250,000 with scarcely a finger raised against them, even with a city police escort. Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News was the first outsider on the spot to figure out one of the darkest inside jobs ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting people...
...taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...
...Jewry and Protestantism is one of the finest and most grateful developments in contemporary American culture. ... As between Protestants and Catholics the situation stands otherwise. In terms of reciprocity, the results are negligible. The Catholic contact with this movement has been hardly more than a discreet gesture with the finger tips. ... Its reserved cooperation in the interfaith movement has been utilized more for purposes of placing Catholicism in a good light before the general community, and especially of breaking down Protestant 'prejudice,' than for self-examination as to whether it might be, here or there, taking unfair advantage...
Within a minute, Landlord Schmidt heard eight loud explosions near List. He saw spouting pillars of fire. Then he heard the Sylt sirens start wailing, and searchlights shot up to finger the sky. Anti-aircraft guns started barking like a kennel of mastiffs aroused in the night. As the two bombers roared south, away from him down the length of Sylt, Herr Schmidt could hear other long-muzzled watchdogs take up the furious chorus...
...Book Four Flem returns from Texas with a string of insanely wild piebald ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...