Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes the names of the games. The hockey season is melting into the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the news from Florida is that the Kansas City Royals have a hot rookie named Clint Hurdle, and the Red Sox's aging Luis Tiant has an ailing finger. This week politicians will be appearing at a variety of stadiums to fling out the first balls of the season. Down in Texas, meanwhile, the hard-hitting rightfielder of Houston's Wheatley High returned to action last week after a federal court ruled that Linda Williams, 18, could no longer be banned...
...admitted that the talks were only preliminary. "We were just cussing each other as usual.") Combs said the union leadership would do whatever the court ordered. "But I can't speak for 20-some districts and more than 700 locals." Replied Judge Robinson: "You've put your finger right on it." After the hearing adjourned, the judge, as expected, granted the restraining order. With that, U.S. marshals started fanning out through the coal fields to serve a copy of the order, along with the Government's complaint, on each of the 1,450 defendants-including 616 coal...
What distinguishes Sam Shepard from a score of promising and prolific young U.S. dramatists is that he is our most persistent social critic. Not that he indulges in the finger pointing that characterizes post-Watergate morality. Always in sorrow and never in anger, he exposes the dry rot that has eroded the faith and commitment of Americans to the triple pillars of society-God, family and country. His style varies from surrealistic to naturalistic to pop, and all of his plays contain an unsettling mixture of wild humor and harrowing revelation...
...comes the start of the "second" season, the time of year when a coach's index finger cramps with fatigue from phone calls to prospective student-athletes, a time to polish up on the Crimson sales pitch [see box], a routine enhanced by Harvard's stunning upset of Ivy champion Pennsylvania, 93-87, a month...
...have been many signs that the limited thaw the new regime has signaled is genuine. The new constitution would restore the so-called office of the procuracy, which before its abolition in 1975 was responsible for screening evidence before prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag, "we must attach importance to evidence, investigations and studies." Meanwhile, some long-imprisoned dissidents have been freed, most notably Li Yi-che, jailed in 1974 for protesting a lack of "socialist democracy and legality" in the regime. Tellingly, that very phrase...