Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience had ever before heard anything like it. KFAR in its first coverage of the icebreak had scored again...
Before the game, deadpanned Robert William Andrew Feller, six pounds underweight at 183, went through his usual routine. He hunted up a razor-blade and shaved down the hard calluses on his right thumb and ring-finger. He picked up a baseball to see if it felt light and small (a good omen) or heavy like a pumpkin (a bad omen). It felt soso...
Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...
Fortunately for the story, while the sisters are sailing out a storm together, the Bad Twin is drowned. The Good Twin impersonates her sister, goes home to the engineer, but is found out before the Johnston Office can waggle a finger. Somehow, after all this, the stolen life is returned...
...Committee points a finger, too, at Britain, the United States, and the United Nations. It tells the British to fulfill their trust, to cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem...