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Word: finger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assured. She was also testy and openly antagonistic toward her questioner: Jill Wine Volner, 30, a persistent courtroom lawyer and member of the Watergate special prosecutor's staff. Miss Woods, her green eyes flashing with Irish indignation, grimaced at what she considered repetitive questioning, shook her head, pointed a finger at Mrs. Volner and spoke sarcastically. Could Miss Woods have accidentally erased anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: The Secretary and the Tapes Tangle | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...French performers and models rehearsed first and consistently ran several hours late. While the Americans waited their turn well into the first night, their hosts provided no food, not even water. The next night, when a dinner break was demanded, a femme Friday offered three petite cartons of finger sandwiches; a ravenous crew of 60 came close to mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Franco-American Follies | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...honored guest, friend, to our humble town. Pardon me, forgive me--I cannot express myself well--we are humble. But you are welcome. We are glad that you have come to visit with us." He pumps his right hand in the air, accentuating his oratory with a dwarfed index finger, injured in the Revolution...

Author: By Sage Sohier, | Title: Glimpse of a Mexican Village | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who also addressed the conference, sharply disagreed with Kennedy. "The Democratic party can't win the coming elections on pointing the finger at Republicans for Watergate," he said. "Watergate has made the average slob suspicious of all politicians--Democrats, too--and we all have to prove our honesty if our institutions are to survive...

Author: By Philip E. Clapp, | Title: Nixon Administration Torpedoed Reform Bill, Kennedy Charges | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...suspect that sometime in the next few weeks, Mr. Nixon's innocence may be proclaimed by a relieved band of Republican leaders who have read the transcripts of the tapes--that is, of course, the transcripts of those tapes that have not been "lost," or erased by the vagrant finger and heavy foot of Rose Mary Woods, or are not obscured by the Marine Band striking up "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" just as the President starts to answer a question about pay-offs to the Watergate defendants. Who could believe the tapes except on blind faith, after...

Author: By Bob Shrum, | Title: The Watergate Mythology | 12/4/1973 | See Source »

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