Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swami. I began my career exactly eleven years ago this fall. My sister had a collection of buttons, all kinds of buttons--sewing, advertisements, and political. One day my sister let me pick any button I wanted. It was then the magic power first rushed to my hot little finger and I chose a red-white-and-blue Wilkie button. The die was cast, and Wendell never knew what...
...anyone safe from Sister Fiorella? Newspapers nicknamed her "The Terrible Nun," and she did her best to live up to the sobriquet. She turned away as many as 35 women a minute during peak periods (up to 2,000 a day), usually with a wave of the finger but sometimes by sprinting into the church to nab offenders who were brazen enough to try to slip past...
...three base their finding on observations and X-ray photographs of 17 patients who volunteered to have their finger joints stretched on a specially designed machine. The tests showed that stretching increases the space between the finger bones, thus reducing pressure on the clear, viscous synovial fluid that lubricates the joints. This causes tiny gas bubbles to form within the fluid. As the pressure continues to decrease, these bubbles burst and release their energy as noise. The gas does not escape. Instead, as the joint returns to normal position, the gas is reabsorbed into the synovial fluid over a period...
Harsh Clampdown. One reason for Israel's failure to pacify Gaza is the nature of the land. It is an elongated, desperately poor 25-mile finger of desert, which has little more than citrus groves in the way of resources. Some 11,000 Gazans have found work in Jordan's occupied West Bank and 5,500 others in Israel itself. But the Palestinian who "collaborates" with the Israelis is a marked man. Last February, 61 Arabs were wounded when guerrillas blew up the main post office in the town of Gaza where they were cashing their Israeli paychecks...
...August 1951, the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy pointed his accusing finger at Davies and at last succeeded in getting him condemned-not for disloyalty but for "disregard of proper forbearance and caution in making known his dissents" from existing policy. Davies refused to resign; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles fired...