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Word: finger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heterosexual, homosexual, asexual or whatever-when will we learn it is not really relevant? Unlike Hoover, can we keep our noses out of other people's bedrooms? The only result of such snooping, finger pointing and sexual labeling is character assassination, alienation and damage done to snooper and snoopee alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Good morning to the day, and next my gold!/Open the shrine, that I may see my saint." With the miser's first lines in Volpone. Ben Jonson put his finger on it: that deep connection between the two aspects of precious metal, as crude capital and as metaphor of heaven, that so long existed in Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: RICHES REVEALED | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Africa, presented an ideal opportunity to end that conspiracy. As the 2,300 churchmen poured into Nairobi, arms from the Soviet Union and the troops of its allies were pouring into Angola. But when the assembly came to making a statement against meddling in Angola, it pointed a finger of blame only at South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Fringe | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...weird combination of airiness and the pouts. Within that well-formed woman lurks the soul of a perpetual adolescent. Wilder's high moment comes during an interview with the Foreign Secretary. There is, you see, this tempting box of chocolates, and His Lordship catches Sigi with not a finger in them but both fists deeply, gloriously into the goodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sandbox Sleuth | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...like all the young people have moved out. This is beautiful country, up to Herkimer, anyway, where things flatten out and get boring near Utica and Rome. West toward Syracuse, still boring, which is hard to understand when ten and twenty miles to the south the apple orchards and Finger Lakes and Ithaca and now, a lot of condiminiums are incredibly more interesting. Past Electronics Park at Syracuse, which is a behemoth, GE's big plant, along with Schenectady, and also a Chrysler factory, and thousands of cluttered plots of working homes. Farm country from there to Rochester, and with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

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