Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guardsmen had bullets in the chambers of their weapons "loaded and locked" from the moment they stepped on campus. All that was needed to fire was a finger flick of a switch near the trigger. Twice before in the 35 hours preceding the shooting, Guard detachments had knelt and leveled their rifles without firing...
Meyers broke his finger in a scrimmage this past week and will be out of practice for ten days. His replacement, Jim Sawhill, has been sidelined with a leg injury...
...irrefutable proof that he intends to liquidate the Palestinian resistance." In Amman, Damascus and Baghdad, guerrilla radios suddenly began crackling with curiously coded messages. "The dinner is hot," said one. "Ghazi is marching to Haifa," said another. In plainer language, the fedayeen command advised its men to "keep your finger on the trigger until the fascist military rule has been removed." In Amman, shopkeepers, who have suffered through previous confrontations, shuttered their stores. Schools closed, offices emptied, and civilians huddled in the basements of limestone houses on Amman's seven hills. Telephone lines went dead. The airport waved off incoming...
...Pusey reportedly distributes copies to his friends. The book has been heralded across the country as at last printing the truth about the hypocrisy of student radicals. Though the core of Kelman's analysis of radical actions at Harvard is perhaps cogent, it is overblown into a wild-eyed, finger-pointing attack on personalities because of Kelman's pique at radicals who he believes stole issues and student support from his own Young People's Socialist League...
...Mary I. Bunting, 60, president of Radcliffe College: You can count the number of women that have been seriously suggested for Harvard's presidency on one finger, and her name is Mary 1. Bunting. Unfortunately, the headline of this article tells the story...