Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four days of sweat, bad food and virgin jungle. A bushmaster bit me in the left index finger-had to shoot the end of the finger off to avoid dying...
Congress is pointing Uncle Sam's finger at 18 year olds, the Army Enlisted Reserve is about to be called to the colors, and even the shops in the Square feature only uniforms,--but the Freshman needn't be as bewildered as he is usually pictured. This old advice cannot be so glibly given as in former years. Yet even if the war has greatly altered both Harvard and the Freshman, some of the old saws can still be repeated. He is bent on preparing himself for some special job, or enlisting in one of the reserves...
...lesser extent, in Britain. The U.S. took notice. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "Canada always seemed to be ahead of us in coming to grips with the grim requirements of war, especially on the economic front, [but] however reluctantly and haltingly, we followed the pointing of her finger...
Finding that there were almost no books on artistic anatomy, Bridgman began to compile his own. He wrote a whole book on the human hand, carrying around a batch of wrist and finger bones in his pocket and earnestly examining them at odd moments on subways and in restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human...
...minutes, you'll probably be sitting on the edge of your seat till it does happen. No matter how many times you've seen them before, jail breaks and murders and holdups and gun-flaming cops-and-robbers chases are always good for a couple of chewed-off finger nails...