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Each page needed to be numbered, usually at the top right hand corner, and it was a good idea to put your name or the title or both up there, too, in case some fumble-fingered assistant editor dropped a couple of manuscripts and had to try to reassemble them.
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I was right — those fumble-fingered boys from the machine shop had been in such a hurry that they had forgotten to attach one of the propellers.
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If you have fumble-fingered kids or are a gearhead, you'll be happy to know that the ShamWow did hold slightly more spilled milk and used motor oil than sponges and cloths.
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It also provides how-to diagrams to help the fumble-fingered master shapes like the Cagney, the Presidential and the Puff.
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So while my previous statement still holds re dropping a Saturn V into one not wildly affecting the gravitational field it emits, such a fumble-fingered moment would make for a fair bit of radiation.
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And take heart – as I said to my students – you cannot be more fumble-fingered than me.
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Faithful readers may remember my admission that I am fumble-fingered when it comes to pastry, and that I had vowed within this year to become better able to make pies that not only tasted good, but looked like something other than a map of Australia, or worse, like something a cow stepped in.
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After all, he'd bought a device that could record all shows, not one that could record all shows save those that some paranoid Hollywood exec, overzealous broadcaster, or fumble-fingered technician gave him permission to record.
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For example, I've molded my life so I spend a lot of time crunching data and very little time with a wrench in my fumble-fingered hands.
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Kindan worked as fast as he could but he was fumble-fingered in his excitement.
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