Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driver: "Be careful!" It was too late. Salamites' 1968 yellow Buick Le-Sabre smashed the presidential limousine on the right front fender, forcing it six feet off course. Ford was unhurt. But Frederick K. Beibel Jr., the Republican state chairman, was slammed against Ford and broke a finger. One eyewitness later reported, "The President looked scared. I'd have been scared...
...shapers possessed as a gift from their own ancestors a sense of a divine moral covenant. Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop called it "a mutuall consent through a specially overruleing providence." Virginia's John Rolfe saw the colonists as "a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God ..." for their "errand into the wilderness." The covenant helped them measure vice and virtue...
When the Sox finally arrived just after 1 p.m., Timilty had moved on, but the thousands who remained broke into a sustained cheer. The noise grew louder as southpaw Bill Lee stepped forward, his Sox cap on backwards, his chin hidden by beard stubble, and raised a two-finger victory salute. Then Lee stepped back...
...first it seems difficult to put your finger on saxophonist Gato Barbieri's current problems. But put on his incomplete "Communion" album, recorded with trumpeter Don Cherry in the early '60s (when Gato was still Leandro), and then compare it with his most recent "Alive in New York" album and you'll spot the difference immediately. It's all in the personnel...
Calm and smiling, the blonde young woman turned to the Miami gas-station attendant, raised what looked like a gray flashlight-and fired. "I fell on the floor and couldn't move," recalled William Lawson. "It was like sticking your finger in a wall socket . . . the worst pain I ever felt." Though he did not know it at the time, Lawson, 27, had been felled by a brand-new, high-voltage weapon called the stun gun. More properly known as a Taser,* the gun was developed for law-enforcement use. No police force has yet bought it, but thugs...