Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked out over Boston Common and the grey dome of the venerable State House, she said to herself: "This damned war!" Bette, too, had met her man at Harvard. She rushed to San Diego to marry him, but his orders were changed unexpectedly, and he sailed a bachelor. Now, fingering the diamond solitaire on her third finger, Bette said: "We have our house all planned. It's to be sort of brick and stone Tudor, with four bedrooms and not too close to the neighbors." Lunch hours she spends window-shopping, filling her imaginary house with imaginary furniture...
Another warning finger was pointed at the antiquated machinery of Congress. After a four-year study, the Committee on Congress of the American Political Science Association told Congressmen they now had two alternatives: they could go on with the present cumbersome, outdated practices, steadily surrendering leadership to the Executive, or they could reorganize and operate more effectively...
...barracks a blond soldier stared at a steamy windowpane. After a while he scrawled, with a finger, "USA . . . USA. ..." The telephone booths were mobbed by noisy, excited men. Now & then a man pushed out with tears on his cheeks: "It was my mother. When she cried I couldn't hold it." Nobody laughed or said a word...
Naval aviators thought they knew precisely whom to blame for this slight. Never in public, but frequently in tight-lipped private conversation, they have pointed the finger at Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, boss of everything which flies, or floats or walks or rolls under Navy insignia. "Ernie"' King, they feel, has never given aviation the recognition it rates as the punch of the modern U.S. Navy...
...right forearm. On the under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...