Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepared with Ed's approval. "To love," he began, "is to appreciate and cherish our beloved as a unique person, deep, extraordinary, exceptional. It is to visualize him or her as an equal yet complementing individual." As Eddie placed the diamond wedding band on Tricia's finger, she promised to "honor and comfort"-the "obey" was omitted. Eddie kissed his bride gently on the cheek. The rain started again just as the ceremony ended...
...pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There are de rigueur catch phrases: endless "Praise Gods" and "Bless Yous." There is even a "Jesus cheer"?"Give me a J, give me an E . . ." Rapidly catching on is the Jesus-People "sign," a raised arm with clenched fist, the index finger pointed heavenward, to indicate Jesus as the "one way" to salvation. "If it is a fad," says Evangelist Billy Graham, "I welcome...
Baskin-Robbins concocts hundreds of new flavors a year at its gleaming research laboratory in beautiful uptown Burbank, Calif. But only eight or nine a year ever make it to the market. The rest are shot down by the company's discriminating marketing specialists or its finger-in-the-wind president, Irvine Robbins. "We don't sell ice cream," he philosophizes. "We sell...
...Supreme Court [approving busing in order to racially balance schools] presents some more problems." He echoed Southern feelings about the North on racial matters when he said, "I have nothing but utter contempt for the double hypocritical standard of Northerners who look at the South and point the finger and say, 'Why don't those Southerners do something about their race problem...
Just to dip my index finger...