Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respected as Man Singh in the years that followed his great oath of vengeance. Villages over an area of 8,000 square miles learned to tremble at news that his gang was near. Few moneylenders dared call in the police when Man Singh sent them the chopped-off finger of a kidnaped relative demanding ransom for the rest of him, for the dacoit's punishment of informers was swift and bloody. But Man Singh, for all his legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing...
...Boeing's Allen will be ready, as before, to plunk down Boeing's bankroll to back the aircraft its engineers build. Allen knows that the future will be risky, but he has unlimited confidence in Boeing's team. Nevertheless, Allen likes to stroll over and gently finger the sharp spines of his blooming cactus plant, remembering the dark days nine years...
...polls would be open all afternoon and anyone whose mind was not made up could vote after the discussion, Mrs. Soss shouted: "You're railroading the vote . . . Maybe we'll have to have Mr. Young as chairman." Excitedly, she marched up to the platform, waggled a finger in the faces of Central executives and charged: "This meeting is illegal." At a nod from White, two railroad policemen jumped over and escorted her back to her seat...
...This band swings more than anything since the bop era began," he says without false modesty. It took hard work to get it that way, and Woody has trouble putting his finger on just what made the difference between the good band it was and the exciting one it became. "It's like one day you get up and it's not the greatest, and the next day you can whip the world...
When the entire clan is gathered, Mr. Hobbs continues such chores as garbage disposal, and evenings finds it impossible to concentrate on a book against theoretical talk that outrages his practical intelligence. "Dollars are only symbols," he hears. "Wealth is the natural resources of a country. . ." Running a finger under his shirt collar, his voice trembling, Mr. Hobbs explodes: "It was dollars that bought that beef tonight that you all gobbled up so cheerfully. It was dollars that bought that bottle of gin that disappeared before dinner. Nobody ever handed me any natural resources, and I never paid a grocery...