Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Makes Scents. In Warsaw, N.Y., County Prison Sheriff Lewis Spring has all incoming prisoners photographed, finger printed and sniffed by a bird dog, which "makes a mental note of their scent...
Analogues. This up-to-the-minute forecasting of weather 400 miles from the nearest Allied observation stations was not done by aching joints or a wet finger to the wind. It was done by long looking at past weather maps - called analogues - which the Army Air Forces had ordered two years before...
...London, Jan Smuts's thoughts are first of all on the coming shape of Europe, in which he foresees Russia as the colossus, France as a lesser nation, Britain in need of a fresh orientation of power. He says, emphasizing his words by drawing, with his index finger, neat holistic circles in the air: "The axis of the new world, the greatest new development today, is the cooperation of America and the Commonwealth...
...plane via Alaska, where, finding himself short of funds, he borrowed $200 from a U.S. Army chaplain at Fairbanks. To photographers at Seattle he shouted: "You should be at the front fighting instead of staying at home taking pictures." At reporters he wagged a stubby finger: "I am a tired man. It is good to get home but I have no other statement to make." When they persisted, he threatened to "give somebody a trimming...
...tripes if I string out the obvious for the delectation of fools!" As soon as an attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...