Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two frontiers of ignorance which challenge an honest editor these days: first, that great multitude who when confronted with new knowledge move their lips when they read and slowly yet hungrily follow each line with a finger; to influence them, and through them, national policy, requires much time and perseverance...
...Showdown? Moscow newspapers called Churchill's speech "aggressive." And Moscow rapped Byrnes's finger when the Secretary tried to point out to Bulgaria how it could make its government more democratic. Bulgaria, Moscow made plain, is Russia's sphere...
...like a pair of constipated cougars. Ickes called Tydings "counsel for the defense," accused him of using police-court methods, once pulled him up sharply for splitting an infinitive. When Tydings accused him of giving conflicting testimony, the Curmudgeon snapped: "You don't have to shake an admonitory finger...
...G.I.s who plan to open a nice, greasy little filling station and live happily ever after, the Department of Commerce last week held up a fatherly finger of caution. The Department warned that almost two-thirds of the 242,000 stations n the U.S. before the war grossed less than $10,000 a year, made an average profit of only 6% on gross, including the owner's salary...
...Drink or the Bottle? County officials moaned that millions in taxes would be cut off forever. Said one: "It's like asking a man to have a drink and watching him take the bottle. We thought UNO wanted about 300 acres." Cried J. David Finger, operator of a flying school at Westchester Airport: "I got chased out of Floyd Bennett Field when the Navy took over. I got chased out of Idlewild when LaGuardia wanted it. If I get chased out of here I swear I'll go to Mexico." A dubious housewife, who guessed UNO wouldn...