Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives him the nod, John L. Lewis will have won, through shrewd strategy and sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M. Fridé celebrated the tenth anniversary of the second time he had invented such a machine. Moreover, although the principle of an accurate calculator is already 123 years old, Carl Fridén's second model was further complicated by the fact that he could not infringe...
Said Blackmailer Bioff: yes, he knew the defendants well. Seven of them were "The Syndicate" that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli...
...were on trial ... but when the Government prosecutor asked for a verdict of guilty, his finger pointed to deeper issues. The ghost on the witness stand was Zionism with its Western dynamics, its strengths, its weaknesses, and its overtones of sorrow and terrorism...
...this week by the Navy Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with soap, does not interfere with finger action, protects against a heat flash of over 1,800° F. The formula is secret...