Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who had watched Leneman at work could report that, whether or not he quite achieved his ends, his means and his theories were disarming. Leneman paints with his fingers, an activity he took up in Warsaw, at 14. Leneman's parents had taken away his brushes to make the boy spend more time at his books, but they forgot to take away his paints. So Leneman started smearing his inspirations directly on the canvas; daubing, lumping, clutching, rubbing and pinching to heighten the drama. Then, in Palestine and Paris, he brought finger-painting to a fine pitch. Later...
...other old ladies in the black hollow of a burned-out tree in the center of the Hiroshima city graveyard. She had little to share but the shade, she said. But she was sharing much more. "I lost my husband and my three children," she said, pointing a crooked finger to a rubble heap near by. "I lived. These [pointing to her companions], lost theirs also. Now we three old ladies live in a little hut near the city hall. We are clearing away the rubble here and putting the gravestones back in place, trying to make this little garden...
...Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger on it." The Mothers' Discussion Group agreed...
Those eager enough to finger the moist covers of reading period assignments yesterday found the pages curling under the impact of close to 100 degree temperature, as a heat wave stretching from New England to Nebraska continued unabated for its third consecutive...
Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed on the air these summer days without Ralph Bell having a trigger finger in it. His ominous accents exude the criminal essence so unfailingly that many directors hate to entrust a "hardened criminal" role to anyone else...