Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...came over to the House of Lords for the debate. He sat on a step with his elbow on the throne seat, passing a fretful hand through his thinning hair. Lord Chief Justice Goddard declared Mr. Ede's action unconstitutional. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood leveled a stern, accusing finger at Lord Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, was Prime Minister Attlee's nominee in the House of Lords, and thundered...
...tested a group of psychology students with a "finger tronometer" (his own invention), which measures the trembling of an outstretched human finger. First he measured the students' "finger tremor" before they started smoking. Then he let each of them smoke half a cigarette, and measured their tremor again. The fingers of the hardened smokers, he found, had increased their trembling 39%. Students who had never smoked before were hardly affected...
They owed their immunity, Dr. Edwards suspected, to the fact that most non-smokers do not inhale when they try a cigarette. So he divided the steady smokers into inhalers and non-inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...
...distance and a young woman on a path, with a child and two dogs beside her. From that time on Bonnard no longer referred to his sketch. He would step back to observe the effect of the juxtaposed tones; occasionally he would place a dab of color with his finger, then another next to the first. On about the fifteenth day I asked him how long he thought it would take . . . Bonnard replied: 'I finished it this morning...