Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the greatest amount of ill health amounts to dental cavities, Cobb added. "It's appalling. You open a child's mouth and find a shell of enamel with a great black hole you can stick your finger into...
...expected, a sudden wind of Marshall-for-President gossip whistled through Washington. But a shrewd Democratic politician put his finger on one major fact of U.S. politics. Said...
...grey chalk-stripe suit with a tan shirt and a red silk tie, carefully disarranged to avoid any appearance of bourgeois neatness, he spent two hours and twelve minutes in passionate exhortation. As Nenni's voice rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many with mouths agape as if to suck in the meaning of the precious words...
...practical success. Especially since the institution of the Byrnes "patient but firm" policy toward Russia, rarely have the men of the various nations' foreign ministeries met without the U. S. representatives excoriating the Soviet Union for its actions of international bad faith and suspicion on this point. The American finger has been pointed at the Russians, often shaken under their noses for their treatment of the UN as another instrument of power politics and for their refusal to evacuate certain former enemy lands along her borders...
With this as their only showing in actual competition, and with no practice before the meet or since, the team will be holding a wet finger weather-ward in hope for a chance to get in some hard practice before the West Point meet of February...