Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flood tide of Europe's social unrest was lapping over into The Nether lands. But Queen Wilhelmina had her finger in the dike. Her new Government for a country radically changed as a result of war and German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...
...praying between artillery barrages; pitying the starved Italian children and the Italian women standing in the midst of their ruined homes. War was watching their friends die, one after the other, day after day after day. War was learning the ecstasy of wiggling a little finger just to see it move and know that you were still alive. War was hell...
...dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita no good...
...Economist laid its finger on the nub when it pointed out that the long-term prospect for British exports depends on comparative industrial efficiency: "It involves asking such questions as whether the universal prevalence of price rings and restrictive cartels [in Britain] is comparable with competitive prices in export markets; whether competition can be suppressed at home without making British industrialists incapable of competing abroad. It involves looking closely into the comparative productive efficiency of every British industry...
...West, always good for a quote or two, first told a Variety reporter that "a lot of loving is coming back from the war," then shook an admonishing finger at her sisters in arms: "Many wonderful men are already on the way home to their wives and sweethearts, and the lady who has been stepping out had best begin to polish off her low talk and shifty ways before he arrives...