Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...doing something about it fell to spare, moose-tall (6 ft. 5½ in.) Major Daniel Imboden, onetime San Luis Obispo (Calif.) newsman, who lectures Japanese editors and reporters three times weekly on how to run an honest newspaper. Last week Imboden put the finger on a long-cherished anachronism of Japanese newsdom: the all-powerful reporters' clubs. He told them to reform or break...
...Laborite backbencher commented on Churchill thus: "The old basket-he's a scoundrel of the deepest dye, but by God, he's put his finger on a few things in this debate." There was also a good deal of approval for Churchill's remarks in the British press. It was noteworthy that no hurrahs at all were forthcoming from the Zionists; their silence contradicted vociferous but unofficial demands that Britain "quit Palestine." They know that if Britain got out of Palestine the Arabs would be on Zion's neck...
...attempt to put the finger of blame on any one or any thing for this predicament is either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India...
...Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch, and one rainy day he grumbled to Mistress Higons: "It is 'long of the King that this weather is so troublous and unstable, and I wene that we shall never have better weather whiles the King reigneth, and therefore it makes...