Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helplessness. The wounded lay amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
...less-emotional Yorkshireman, Professor Thomas Edmund Jessop of Hull University, wagged a warning finger at possible postwar nerves. Said he: "The only salvation of the English people may be their traditional phlegmatic attitude toward events. . . . The machine is going too fast for the average human mind and the strain may prove too great...
...playing the wily villain of the play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...from helmet to boots. He commands the troop's light tanks, which have been up against the Germans' heavier Mark IVs and VIs since the column left the beach. The only break in the tank commander's greyness is a red gash in his right index finger. He inspects the gash and says he got it buttoning up his tank. He tells his story briefly, tiredly, carefully...
They were armed and clothed with U.S. equipment, drilled English-style, saluted either flat-handed like the British, or finger-tips-to-forehead, G.I.-fashion. Two of the three top commanders were men from the U.S., most of the battalion leaders, Canadian. Most top sergeants were Canadian; most junior officers, from below the border. Troops from the two countries got along together, despite the pay differential in favor of the U.S. soldiers...