Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lackey did, however, say that the Radcliffe team has been particularly handicapped for the last few games because "three potential starters were lost due to injuries." Team captain Jane Elliott was forced to withdraw in mid-season due to torn ligaments, Susan Spath had to retire with a broken finger and a third player is suffering from a precocious hernia. Consequently, only seven out of fourteen players showed up for the Yale game...
...chivalric code to give to the poor and avoid harming innocent people. Like members of the Mafia, they took a blood oath that was not broken with impunity. For failing to live up to the yakuza code, an offender had to show penitence by cutting off his little finger and presenting it to his oyabun (boss)-a rite that still prevails in the Japanese underworld...
...diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick out his tongue at the President...
...argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal persuasiveness a few months earlier. He paused for a moment, smiled and lifted a finger to his lips: "Shhhh...
...still open to legitimate debate, but Herbert convincingly argues that it was because he continually kept reporting war crimes and atrocities to his superiors. An unbending believer in the old codes, Herbert made a red flag of the Geneva Accords and waved it at the slightest provocation. Apparently, his finger pointing became more than his commanding officers could bear. At first they were incredulous; then they called him "soft"; finally they...