Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan lightly touched a finger to his sensitive nose and said that he, too, hoped to hear soon from His Majesty's Government. Russia's Andrei Gromyko said nothing-and nobody asked...
...Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
When Caesar had finished, a photographer asked for a fighting pose. Caesar thrust out a belligerent left, first carefully removing a chunky ring from his chubby little finger...
Then came the political action-mostly internecine. The nub of the controversy was obscure, but suddenly C.C.P.A.C. was split in splinters. Cried Dr. Pope: "All Communists in this organization should resign." Then he pointed a finger: he demanded that Mrs. Brubaker get out for "insubordination." She refused, and Dr. Pope asked the steering committee to censure her. Instead, it dismissed Dr. Pope. Miss Holman resigned in protest, Mrs. Brubaker in the interests of harmony. Then other right-wingers among the left-wingers let it be known that they, too, were much too busy...
...forces of evil are eager, for no very memorable reason, to liquidate Groucho, Their finger-woman is a sort of marked-down Mata Hari (Lisette Verea). The powers of good, most intelligently represented by Chico and Harpo, are out to frustrate dastardy and. raise all possible hell in the process...