Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little meaning so long as the U.S. continued to label all political problems: "Do Not Open Until Peace." The news of Poland and Greece was that Britain and Russia each had specific, immediate, well-planned aims in Europe. It was high time for the U.S. to abandon finger-shaking at what it did not like about the ideas of other nations, and to come up with some...
Last week the first finger of the Allied hand jabbed deepest into the softening Japanese defenses. At its tip were jungle-wise troops of the Chinese 22nd Division under General Lee Tao, who had marched and fought 210 miles through roadless terrain in two months; and U.S. troops seasoned with veterans of Merrill's Marauders, now gathered in an outfit ominously named Mars Task Force. Commanding it was Brigadier General John P. Willey, who had conquered Myitkyina...
Fingerboards and Filters. The emiriton. which produces tones much like those of the violin, cello, bassoon, clarinet and oboe, has several advantages over previous electro-musical instruments (such as the theremin). Because it is played by running one finger up and down a free fingerboard, tones are produced strictly by finesse of touch, not by mechanical means. Because it is a single-voiced instrument that does not play chords, each instrument in the ensemble is a personality, like each instrument in a string quartet, and lends itself to a great variety of color and volume...
Before the performer, in the spot that would be occupied by a piano keyboard, is a cloth-covered fingerboard about three feet long and three inches wide. This is a rheostat. By pressing the finger on it at any given point, the player controls the amount of electricity that goes into the instrument's generator tube. Depending on the amount of current that goes into one of the grids of the tube, the vibration frequency which controls the pitch is changed up & down...
...Naturally they do not crowd around American troops . . . they do not even give a sign that they are aware the Americans are there. Now and again some aged man will find it impossible to avoid the eye of an American, and frequently he will lift a finger to the peak of his cap in a salute neither servile, nor military, nor insolent. American troops have seen nothing quite like these people...