Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personal Traits. Of average size (5 ft. 8 in.; 165 Ibs.). His most pronounced facial characteristics are his famed brush mustache and his round, brown eyes. His most characteristic gesture when making a speech: emphasizing a point by rising on his toes, leaning forward, pointing his index finger and popping his eyes. He favors dark, conservative suits, hates to be photographed in his shirtsleeves (he thinks it undignified) or with his mouth open (his front teeth are slightly parted). He speaks in deep, deliberate tones, uses an occasional gentlemanly damn...
...week long the urgent bulletins from harried Dewey lieutenants in Wisconsin reported new gains by General Douglas MacArthur and indefatigable Harold Stassen. Unless Dewey reversed his 1944 strategy, when he swept the Wisconsin primaries without lifting a finger, he might find himself out in the cold after next week's primary election. At week's end Tom Dewey made his decision: he would hustle out to Wisconsin this week, would follow up with a trip to Nebraska...
...Charles were once again strewn with people. In his hand Vag carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic of the eleventh century. Vag read on eagerly...
...dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
Pert, plump "Merry" Geissmann, 36, daughter of a Columbus (Ohio) manual arts teacher, has several other success notes in her style book. She has designed furniture and simple dress and accessory patterns. Her biggest success was the Merry Hull "Finger-Free Glove," with three-dimensional fingers to eliminate cramping. In ten years she has collected $200,000 in royalties...