Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caved-in roofs, dangerous dangling electric wires, burned-out shops, blackened automobiles and screaming people. Four bombs made craters 12 ft. deep and 20 ft. across within 20 yds. of the house of Dr. Rashid Haddad, the town's only physician. There, the doctor said, pointing a finger, a man got caught in the flames. His clothes and hair were on fire. He died right away; there was nothing I could do for him.'" Scott counted twelve craters, and three unexploded bombs were taken away. Eight villagers had been killed and about 50 wounded. "Perhaps one bomb might...
...Alan Wilde of the Cleveland Clinic, early surgery may provide more permanent relief and slow the progress of the disease as well. Wilde told a scientific session of the Arthritis foundation that he had performed synovectomies on 39 patients, delicately removing the inflamed tissue from a total of 121 finger joints. Most of the patients experienced complete relief of pain, while a few showed partial improvement. Arrosion of the joint surface continued in about a third of the patients. In nearly half, the deterioration stopped, while in a few cases, removal of the diseased synovium actually casued the damaged cartilage...
...illustrate what he meant, Professor Earl Cheit leaned down, swabbed his index finger across the floor under his chair and then held up the evidence. His finger was black. The floor was filthy because it had not been swept; it had not been swept because maintenance funds were inadequate; the maintenance funds were inadequate because the huge and prestigious University of California (nine campuses, $1 billion annual budget) has for the past four years been involved in what Berkeley Economist Cheit calls a "cost-income squeeze" that is prototypical of problems facing other large U.S. educational institutions...
...score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting. He was a perfectionist. Artie would decorate each cupcake from a pastry-frosting bag, and if I dipped my finger in the frosting he'd be mad as hell...
...Francisco's Russ ("the Moose") Syracuse attracts an estimated 50,000 listeners from midnight to dawn with KSFO's on-the-air lonely-hearts club. "This is Love Line," he announces. "Use your index finger and dial this number. Radio romance can be yours for the price of a phone call." A few of Syracuse's callers only want a weekend date, but not many. He claims to have fostered 13 marriages and twelve engagements. "How many disk jockeys," he asks, "get that kind of satisfaction?" Quite a few, if they measure satisfaction in terms...