Word: fingered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...steelmen, who are blamed by the railmen for the failure of the building program, pointed a finger at the car builders. Walter Sheldon Tower, head of the American Iron & Steel Institute, said that steelmakers had, by Government figures, supplied carmakers with enough steel to build 26,950 cars in June, July and August-5,950 more than the program figure. But production for domestic use in those months totaled only...
...Manchuria the situation is altogether different. Government troops hold most of South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing...
...every Russian schoolboy is taught, the Russian press is really free-not free to speak its mind, but free to speak Russian truth. And Russian truth is always carefully designated as such by the Kremlin. Last week, the Kremlin pointed its finger at the U.S.Obediently, the Russian press huffed & puffed at the U.S. with the same force once directed against Nazi Germany...
...Kennedy was injured during the scrimmage and his availability next Saturday is doubtful. Another end, Walt Coulson, yesterday learned that his "bad" finger, obtained against Western Maryland, was broken. However, he will probably be able to play Saturday. Fortunately, one of the Crimson's strongest positions, in the point of reserves...
...secret to the police that an efficient "abortion mill" was operating somewhere in New York City. Cops and detectives had worked for five weeks, tapping wires, spying through binoculars, loafing around in disguise, before they could put the finger on an apartment house in The Bronx. Some fine undercover work was done during the American Legion Convention by a policeman and a policewoman disguised as a Kansas Legionnaire and his wife...