Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story: During exam period last June, a student became so worried about an upcoming final that he asked his roommate to smash his finger with a hammer. The roommate obliged, with some precautions taken for his friend's safety and comfort, and the distraught student suffered his way into an airtight medical excuse...
Ricks pointed out the careful way Dylan chooses his words. William Zanzinger twirls the cane around his "diamond ring finger" here Dylan uses a noun as an adjective a device that may be rejected by the Iowa Poetry Workshop" but that makes for evocative poetry. The rhymes in the second verse, about William Zanzinger, are all masculine that is, the rhymed syllables an stressed In the third verse which recounts the life of Hattie Carroll, the accents are feminine kitchen-children; table-level...
...Middle East financiers are buying technology," reads an ad in Milan's Corriere della Sera. "Encounter with the Middle East!" cries a come-on in Paris' Le Monde. Another ad in London's staid Financial Times crooks an inviting finger: "The Middle East wants to do business with...
McHugh doggedly came up throwing, but the home plate umpire was already waving his finger around over his head, indicating it was a home run. Northeastern coach Johm Connolly and his dugout protested loudly, but to no avail. The college rules state that if a fielder is carried out of the ballpark by his own momentum, it is a home run regardless if he catches...
Ford nevertheless had other things to say about Indochina. He rightly deplored the "vast human tragedy that has befallen our friends in Viet Nam and Cambodia." He insisted that this was no time "to point the finger of blame." Rather, "history is testing us." America should "put an end to self-inflicted wounds" and "start afresh" in a new spirit of cooperation between the President and Congress...