Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting the difficulties brought on by this omission, Dale Melbourne as Nora falls far short of possessing the ability to make the character seem real. The only impressions she leaves on the audience as she makes her exit at the last curtain are those of annoyance at her finger-twiddling, fast speaking portrayal of a stock Nora...
...exhilaration of this scene, endlessly repeated as we went down the steel finger, gradually uplifted you until you felt like bursting with pride at even being a spectator in this liberation...
...Senate's Agriculture Committee this week began to dig to the bottom of the food muddle (see INTERNATIONAL). It had a big job on its hands. In all of vast bureaucratic Washington, everyone could put a finger on someone to blame. All this seemed to boil down to one main fact: there was no top control of the U.S. food supply or its allocation...
Nobody could put a finger on the exact point at which Bing Crosby attained this distinction, but the honor was definitely, securely his. For the past ten years "The Groaner" has averaged a new record every other week. Number of copies sold since he first began recording two decades ago: about 75 million. The Crosby voice has been heard oftener and by more people than even these figures hint at. Most U.S. radio stations play about twelve hours of recorded music a day. Day in & day out, from coast to coast, the singing voice heard oftenest in canned concerts...
Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...