Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers tried, but they never could break Dorothy of her habit of making horrible faces while she played. Their prim five-finger exercises never could curb her habit of cutting loose in shoulder-shaking, canebrake improvisations (Dorothy finally wore out one piano). The Conservatory was never able to keep her percussive feet still either...
...world Charlie gleefully turned back to his first love-ships. He dickered with the Navy, in the summer of 1940 landed a $32,800,000 contract for ten submarines. Then he got to work, converted his own plant and 60 subcontractors to submarine building. Because Wisconsin winters are finger-numbing cold, he makes the submarines piecemeal indoors, assembles them in 15 sections, weighing from 38 to 68 tons each. His first submarine was launched sideways in April-eight months ahead of schedule...
...Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
Most of Dakar's white inhabitants are crowded into the twelve-mile peninsula that curves out from Africa like a beckoning finger, vulnerable to combined land-sea-air attack. The French know that one reason for the failure of the De Gaulle-British expedition two years ago was the lack of sufficient land and air strength in support of the Royal Navy's frontal assault. The French also know that the United Nations-with an air base at Bathurst (some 80 miles to the south) and troop pools filling up with U.S. soldiers along the African west coast...
...MOVING FINGER-Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). Grey-haired Miss Marple, whose innocent face conceals a good deal of criminal knowledge and detecting skill, stops her knitting long enough to present the puzzled police with the solution of a poison-pen plot that leads to suicide and murder. A smoothly flowing and flawlessly constructed story...