Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged her wealthy (automobiles) husband with assault. Major Horace E. Dodge Jr. had been "very rough," she said. Served with a summons in a suit for separation (she wants $60,000 a year alimony), he had stopped in at her Park Avenue apartment, ripped a diamond ring off her finger, yanked a diamond pin from her waist, nearly got a diamond necklace-but that dropped down the front of her dress. She dropped the assault charge after he sent back the jewelry...
Harvard's Philosopher George Santayana once put his finger on Phelps's success: "You always bring with you a sort of Gulf Stream of warmth and kindness...
...Lice Throwers" specialized in vermin. Every Saturday night they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...Quadragesima Anno (May 15, 1931). Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing threat of war. In Rerum Novarum Leo put a fearless finger on the morbid core of Europe's social sickness. He attacked the misery of Europe's impoverished masses and those responsible for their condition...
...sweep the town" (one of the many to which Seagrave moved his base) "we returned to our operating tables. ... I simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along pretty well also. . . . Little Bawk...