Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker, Cyril Osborne, M.P. from Lincolnshire's agricultural section of Louth, pivoted, leveled an accusing finger at the Conservative Party bigwigs enthroned in the silver shell of the ballroom bandstand, and roared...
...Aloysius Stepinac and twelve Catholic priests was rolling to a close. Charged by Marshal Tito with "crimes against the people" (TIME, Sept. 30), the 48-year-old head of the world's fifth largest Catholic diocese (1,800,000 members) temporarily lost his equanimity. He shook an angry finger at the court, cried: "Not only does the church in Yugoslavia have no freedom, but in a short while the church will be annihilated." He denied "forced conversion" of 230,000 Serbs to the Roman Catholic Church, during the war. Said he: "My conscience is clear...
...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...
...distinction, he has some excuse for vanity. He sold his first drawing (to St. Nicholas magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties. Now 69, he is still painting pictures that get about-such as his archly compassionate conception...
Last week, as "Operation North" rolled out of Dawson Creek on the first lap of its 2,000-mile Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At week's end, as the caravan rolled north in trucks and autos, the only enemies encountered were dust and mosquitoes...