Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Sulzberger, ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to house the launchers, and bombers from Britain have been attacking the installations since last November...
...point at me," Barrymore told a Hollywood producer (an ex-tailor) who started to bawl him out: "I remember that finger when it had a thimble...
...Byrne--he of the trigger mind--urges the shortening of the Harvard deal to a two-week stint . . . Orchild of the week to the Welfare Office for the Kid Xmas Party . . . Things we still don't understand: Why they call Pike "Conscienceless" . . . Section A has learned that the two-finger rule must be applied in more than one of their classes--ask Cook . . . Tomorrow will be the first "normal" working Nooyers Day for quite a few of the communicators . . . Until next week, HNY and all that...
...Spectre. Gnarled, cheerful Jim Tweedy, who has spent 60 of his 71 years in the mines, put his finger on one trouble with Bevin's plan. Said he: "If you conscript a man for the Army he goes willingly to fight for country, home and bairns. If you conscript him for the pits he is told to fight for other men's profit." The House's lone Communist Willie Gallacher said it another way: "If it is proposed to ballot young men into the pits, it is time to ballot the owners...
...Chinese. The apathy and slow disintegration in China bear on the Allies' great gamble in Asia: that, when taps are blown in Europe and the South Pacific, Lao Ping will somehow be ready to greet G.I. Joe with cheers and a ready trigger finger...