Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working on the Railroads. In Potsdam the President had kept a close eye on the Pacific war reports and a guiding finger on domestic matters. During the week he: ¶Appointed St. Louis Banker John W. Snyder to be War Mobilization and Reconversion Director (see below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked...
These were the chief points on which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee...
...enough to do to keep me truck clean without bothering too much about me person.") His weekly appearance in Yank was a popular one. But untraveled civilians who try to read 51 of his adventures at a sitting will find the laughs wearing thin. Author Brown himself puts a finger on the weakness of his book as civilian entertainment when he notes that Artie's "character was appreciated by those who were living with someone like him and listening to him every...
...weeks Doyle could not turn in bed. First, he concentrated on trying to move his fingers. After many days he managed to move his right thumb, then the index finger, then the whole hand. When he tried to bend his elbow, he found that he had lost coordination: instead of tightening one muscle and relaxing its opposite, he tightened both. One day, in answer to a nurse's question, he tried to shrug his shoulders, was startled because only one shoulder shrugged. But he learned to shrug both shoulders, to bend his arm, and (after practicing daily...
...every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover the news ; you tell us what you think of it. Kenneth thereupon got into the groove. One of his stories began: "This story starts one winter night in 1942 in a He waggled a solemn finger at his contemporaries : "I think it's pretty important to know just why this conference is being held. And if you don't know the purpose of it, don't feel bad, because a lot of adults don't either." His eye sharpened...