Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assistant to Attorney General Jackson, and then to Francis Biddle. Then he was an assistant general counsel in 0PM (later WPB), and finally assistant to Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson in OES. By that time (1942), "Prich" had roly-polyed his way around Washington until he had a chubby finger in everybody...
...ought to be done about Sixth Avenue. So, last week, in one of his spasmodic attacks of grandiloquence, did hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Hurriedly he sent an emergency message to the City Council. Members read it with bulging eyes, debated wildly, were unable to call back the moving finger of reform. That evening Manhattan discovered that Sixth Avenue had been renamed "Avenue of the Americas" (pronounced Avunya Damurrikuz...
...microwave set uses radio waves so tiny that they put the finger on raindrops and dampish clouds. A system of such sets could give a precise, continuous map of the weather over the whole U.S., showing airplanes how to dodge dangerous storm clouds...
...took three snakes out of the box and laid them over his arm. Then a fourth, a rattler, bit him on the finger. He brought his arm up and the snake was hanging by his fangs in Lewis' finger. He went on preaching for ten minutes and he got a good victory over the serpent. The snake was laying over the pulpit like he was dead when Lewis stepped down...
...garment makers and sellers felt safe and sure that all fall lines could be safely moved before Christmas. Then a frightening specter arose. Without warning, WPB announced that it was set to repeal the L85 order. OPA, which feared for its price ceilings, at once wagged a warning finger. In Manhattan's teeming garment center, there was great consternation...