Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...
...reports to the President, prepared before the present crisis, John R. Steelman, director of the U. S. Conciliation Service, pointed a finger directly at the operators, accusing them of failure to bargain collectively with the union and refusal to make counter proposals when they refused the union's demands, something which the NLRB has called an unfair labor practice. He pointed out that the operators had throughout the negotiations maintained an aloof, purely legalistic attitude, supporting themselves on the evasive contention that under the Economic Stabilization Act and the various allied executive orders the miners were not entitled...
With every farmer, holding up a moistened finger to the spring winds, were the hopes of the nation. In 1943, year of food shortages, a late freeze would be tragic, a long drought disastrous. The weather, long the biggest news in the billion acres of U.S. farm country, was now full of meaning for the most sheltered city dweller...
...hand ends in Galicia. It has an index finger...
...believe that emotional reconditioning is just as important as physical toughening. When possible, convalescents are now housed apart, away from the sickroom atmosphere, allowed to wear uniforms, play games, watch movies and live a normal military life as far as their disabilities will let them. Exercises range from light finger-&-toe work to calisthenics (including push-ups), drill and outdoor fatigue such as gardening...