Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oceanic calm of Oxford remains undisturbed by my article in Isis magazine [TIME, Oct. 24]. Americans write me, however, and urge me to "give the Limeys another smack." They are determined to picture me as a wholesome American youth pointing the finger of shame at drunken, decadent Oxford. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am no youth, and Oxford is not decadent...
...strides onstage to the strains of Send the Great Revival in My Soul. His lapel microphone which gives added volume to his deep, cavernous voice, allows him to pace the platform as he talks, rising to his toes to drive home a point, clenching his fists, stabbing his finger at the sky and straining to get his words to the furthermost corners of the tent...
When she makes a visit to the temple in Jerusalem, she gets a premonition of her destiny in the words of an aged visionary who points a bony finger at Miriam and cries: "Mark her well, you women . . . From her womb shall Israel's Redeemer come...
Cutting his way through the murky gloom of the Sanctum Sanctorum, he stumbled over the wizened oriental as he approached his Ouija board, and he watched the stylus as the message of the gods poured through it. The moving finger wrote thus and having writ, moved...
Polk said last night that he had discovered that Gregory Stakiopoulos, government "finger-man" in the case, was famed as the "Political Barometer of the Balkans"--a "devilish and shrewd" man who in many changes of government had always managed to remain on the winning side...