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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High] has put his finger on the sore spot of the professional church today. Protestantism seems to want psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, etc. filling their pulpits, but not preachers of the Gospel which Stanley High claims he needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo: "Why did you sit on the Clock Committee watching it do nothing?" Checchi jumped over the table, shouted: "I wasn't going to do propaganda for Father Bernardoni." The priest interrupted: "At least, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Take Him Away | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Leneman reasons that brushes are merely extensions of the fingers; he prefers to do without them because finger-painting gives him "a much closer physical relationship. I like directness, I'm impatient, and a good painting is a good painting even if it's done with the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creamy & Sticky | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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