Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wetting his finger and holding it to the U.S. breeze, New York's aging, ailing Senator Robert F. Wagner, a shrewd weatherman of public opinion, thought the wind last week favored a revised and expanded Social Security bill. Promptly, he introduced one in Congress...
Churchill also wagged a warning finger at strong-arm politics in Europe: "There would be little use in punishing the Hitlerites ... if totalitarian or police governments were to take the place of the German invaders...
...afternoon of the next day, while Montgomery was in staff conference, word reached him of Friedeberg's return. He let the Germans wait-ten minutes, 20 minutes. Then, still deliberate, he walked to his van and sent for Friedeberg. The German commander came, puffing a cigaret to its finger-burning end. A few moments later he emerged, his shoulders drooping. With the others he walked quickly to a brown tent with two of its sides rolled up. They sat stiffly at a plain trestle table covered with a grey blanket. On it was an inkwell with a plain, wooden...
Last week, Charley Ross was both elated and worried by the abrupt offer of his boyhood chum. If he accepted, he would have his finger on an exciting piece of history. Still, the job was a well-known heartbreaker, and it paid only $10,000 a year (Ross gets $35,000 from the P-D). Besides, Publisher Pulitzer was dead against his leaving...
...solution to this little problem : a gadget which enables a pilot to control a heavy plane as easily as a child steers its bicycle. The device, called a "formation stick," has an arm rest and a pistol-gripped lever, which can be flicked in any direction by a finger touch. Electronics does the rest : the stick's motion is converted into an amplified electrical signal which operates the motors which operate the plane's control surfaces...