Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the Chinese let the narrow Japanese finger reach towards its objective, Nanning, expecting to flank and cut it later. But the Chinese miscalculated, and let the Japanese reach their objective. The Japanese at once began bombing the lifelines, including the French-owned railway from Indo-China...
Country bumpkins and city slickers came out of Plattsburg soldiers; under the pointing finger the posters said: "Uncle Sam Needs...
...perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...
Lionel Hampden goes hog wild again on this two finger piano stuff in "I Found A New Baby." god help anybody who plays in his new band when it gets going this spring--he believes in the fastest tempos I've heard from a jam band in a long time. It isn't good saying, only attraction to it is the tempo...
...hunt narrowed down when an anonymous telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corp. put the finger on a Miss Minnie L. Haskins. Every effort was promptly made to get in touch with Minnie, for by this time BBC officials were being harried by an avalanche of queries from baffled quotation hunters who included such savants as Harold Idris Bell, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and the Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul...