Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if all the machines ran like clockwork, man in the Arctic would still be inefficient. A rifle will fire, but it takes a man to aim it and press the trigger-and a man wearing four layers of mittens has no trigger finger. Neither can he work small knobs on radio or radar sets...
...Austin S. Edwards of the University of Georgia works for a tobacco-growing state, but in the latest Journal of Applied Psychology he reports one effect of tobacco smoking: it increases "finger tremor," an indication of disturbance in the nervous system...
...Philippines the reception was different. Businessmen there were cool to what Japan had to offer, and politicians, sensing the public hostility, were cooler. Said Philippine Congressman Cipriano Primicias: "MacArthur is being deceived ... I would not lift a finger to help put Japan again in a position to menace the peace and security of the Far East...
Princess Margaret got the measles. The royal physician did a hasty finger-count, assured the world that she had had no contact, during the infectious period, with her sister Princess Elizabeth...
...time Sigler had finished, the legislature was seething with charges and countercharges. Rising up with accusing finger, State Senator William Vandenberg* shouted at his colleagues: "You are the men who killed the governor's program because of your vindictiveness." Snapped one of the accused: "I don't want him, you can have him, he's two-faced...