Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Profit & Loss. It was Harold Stassen who had put the finger on Ed Pauley. He accused him of being one of several "insiders in the national Administration . . . profiteering in food." That was enough to bring Pauley to the committee's attention...
...second time in a dozen years, John Lewis turned his back on the house of labor he could not dominate. Truculent and unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L. 22 months ago in the hope of twirling its leaders around his little finger. The formal reason for his curt note of divorce was his split with A.FL.'s officers over methods of combating the Taft-Hartley...
...Louis might have slipped as a fighter, but he had not lost his laconic candor. When a reporter asked if he thought Jersey Joe was a second-rater that night, Louis tapped his chest with his finger and said...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward of an air scoop permitted gasoline to be sucked into the heating system, where it ignited. Douglas plans to move the vent and make some other minor design changes, paying for them itself. The airlines do not expect to get the 92 grounded planes back into service until next month...
Rebecca also possessed two other provocative talents-an ability to put her mental finger on the key detail of a complicated situation or character, and a sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either...