Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer was at hand...
...hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...
...other city in this country has been fortunate enough to have an Ed Crump. He is the only so-called political boss I have ever known at whom the finger of suspicion could not be pointed charging him with personal corruptness...
...Nebraska primary? He had invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...
Every morning at 9:30, a big bell rings in the pit room of Chicago's Board of Trade. It sends traders swarming over the floor, starts the furious finger signaling which means "buy" and "sell" in the world's greatest grain exchange. But one day last week the big bell did not ring at 9:30; for the first time in 13 years,* grain trading stopped in Chicago...