Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times had told its story, the one "That's fit to print," and I was going down to Columbia to see it in person, so I pondered over the stewardess's remark as I left the plane. At which point, the middle age adult buyer turned and pointed his finger at me. "Hey buddy, when you take over buddy, I'm over on something and something street, and I've got a 30-30 rifle. Be sure and come over...
...Humphrey-Kennedy ticket would have a certain irony. Humphrey Biographer Winthrop Griffith recalls a scene at the Los Angeles convention when John Kennedy was on the brink of victory. Bobby, a finger thrust at Hubert's chest, demanded the immediate delivery of Minnesota's delegates, "or else." Humphrey poked back and said: "Bobby, go to hell...
...condemn the traditional notion that compensatory education seeks to compensate for the ghetto child's "cultural deprivation." This term imlies none-too-subtly that whatever is black and poor is deprived and whatever is white and middle class is adequate. Apart from its racist connotations, the idea points the finger at the wrong party. The real failure, Review contributors indicate, lies not with the ghetto child but with the school's inability to provide a stimulating "educational environment...
PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...
...could have been worse. When the U.C.L.A. lead reached an astonishing 44 points with 5 min. to go, Wooden mercifully removed his starters one by one. Alcindor left with 2:04 to play, and raised his long right arm high in the air with the index finger extended to signify No. 1. Who could argue? Said Houston Coach Guy Lewis: "That was the greatest exhibition of basketball I've ever seen in my life...