Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...
...Kansas City Star. Bald Bill Reddig, an all-round newsman for 25 years, has a book about the Pendergast machine (Tom's Town) coming out in the fall. As a Democrat on a Republican paper, he always wanted to write editorials, jumped at the chance when the Democratic finger of the Charlotte News beckoned...
...Brian! Naughty!" scolded Mrs. Ralph Bell, wagging a finger at her 2½-year-old son. She went to .the radio and snapped it off. "How many times must I tell you, you must never listen to your father on the radio...
...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...
...print his morning Sun. Since it began, six years ago, the Sun has been a paying guest of the Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie...