Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the electoral college system, however, Professor Allport admits public opinion polls are deficient in predicting the precise results of the Presidential election. "Polls are mostly useful for keeping the finger on the pulse of opinion...
...philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received the last rites...
...drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease bill in 20 minutes, then filled in the details in two and a half hours. Last week Cox said the President's letter will become the guiding policy of postwar foreign trade...
...state law. On the subject of balloting he noted further that the President's main support comes from the South, "where millions of Americans are deprived of their right to vote by the poll tax and by intimidation. Not once in twelve years has my opponent lifted a finger to correct this, and his platform is cynically silent on the whole subject...
...gravest of all was the threat of the western finger, resting on Paoching and pointing across the Kweichow plateau to the Fourteenth's great central bases at Kweiyang and Kunming...