Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finger waving, Vellucci opens fire: "Mister Rudolph, we held up that money so you could come in here and tells us about," the councillor pauses for emphasis, "WIN-sor Street." Heavy traffic on Windsor was Vellucci's opener last Monday, but the councillor soon moved on to other favorites--a stop sign at 4th and Hurley, a traffic light at 6th and Gore. After a while Vellucci got tired and said "I have a big long list, but I'll save it for another night when we'll make you the big star here." Rudolph was lucky that time; only...
...even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap it up for Wife Elizabeth Taylor because he fancies slipping a little love token on her finger now and again. Explained Burton's secretary: "Mr. Burton doesn't give presents for a special occasion. He gives presents because he likes giving them." Said Richard: "My little girl is ecstatically happy about getting...
...restored to respect, purpose and value. But the catastrophic events of 20th century history have shattered the presumptions of the problem play. Man's ineradicable genius for evil has reduced the doctrine of social engineering to puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered...
Waving a white handkerchief and sternly pointing his finger, he told the perspiring crowd: "We must not be lazy. This could destroy the country." Zambia's Vice President, Simon Kapwepwe, put it even more dramatically. Brandishing a pick, a shovel and a rake in his hand at another rally, he proclaimed: "No sweat, no sweet...
...bone fragments. Forgetting their survey, they began digging carefully at the site and uncovered other bones, some animal and some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that the early human was similar to modern man and had died around...