Word: finger
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Belin called her efforts as acting dean "merely a finger in the dike" until a new dean could be found...
About 1½ years ago, for example, Boise Cascade bought 17,000 forested acres along a finger of Puget Sound near Bremerton, Wash., and laid elaborate plans to convert about a third of the property into a community of vacation homes. Pouncing on the fact that the company failed to specify that it would install a sewer system, conservationists and local residents began to complain about possible pollution. Kitsap County commissioners imposed so many conditions that the development is still stalled. "We tried to relate to the local people," says David Carey, the project manager, "but we didn...
...instruct an aerospace company to attack it in the same fashion as the ten-year moon project. The company would take on the problem, separate its components, analyze ways to deal with them, project a schedule for solution and build some of the hardware. Says Assistant Secretary Harold Finger of the Housing and Urban Development Department: "The industry's capability in hardware, software, management, planning, evaluation, analysis and programming?all can be applied to the national problems of housing, pollution, waste management...
...continues to demonstrate), but further putsches were ruled out. During the next decade, the Nazis exploited the freedoms granted them and their tactics were rewarded with Hitler's constitutionally legal accession to the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933. History doesn't record if any grave liberals "gave him the finger" or turned their backs on him that...
Wherever he goes, Trillin resists the temptation to put his pulse on the finger of the nation. There is never any doubt about where his sympathies lie but, like his late colleague, The New Yorker's A.J. Liebling, Trillin exhibits great technical control and a quiet passion for fairness and precision. He is, to use a phrase that Liebling reserved for high praise, "a careful writer." · R.Z. Sheppard