Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surveying the War Production Board mess, the Senate's watchful Truman Committee last week put a firm finger on what was wrong. What the Truman report now said came as no news to U.S. citizens. They had heard it again & again & again for nearly three years. Said the committee: the row, and the resulting blow to production, were a "result of basic weaknesses in the control of the war effort." And the big basic weakness is WPB ("The lines of authority are confusing even on paper . . . they breed disputes...
Theologians deny this, try to "trace the finger of God in all historical events." Some economists deny it too, talk about "forces." But, says Hook, with a nod at Thomas Carlyle, the investigator of his tory, instead of arriving at "forces" finds some single individual like bearded old Karl Marx...
...almost three years the State Department and the Admiral had been a finger-snap away from the brief act of violence in which the U.S. would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors harrumphed: this is it. Each time one side or the other had managed to think of one more démarche, one more protocol, one more possible avenue of negotiation. Even the cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced...
...finger of war pointed last week at the islands of the Mediterranean...
...Only a few hours' ride from New York City, in a little tributary of the Finger Lakes called Catherine Creek, creels grow fat with some of the finest rainbow trout in the East. Other famed trout streams are reachable by train from Manhattan...