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Word: finger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that white men had been in the landing party infuriated other black African governments. Their reaction recalled a Touré maxim from the early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinea: Cloudy Days in Conakry | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Thus Nixon must make certain that he will receive no blame when the prisoners do not return; he does this by encouraging the American people to point the finger of blame at the North and pulling dramatic surprises like last week's "search and rescue" mission...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Prisoners and Politics | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

...laying his finger aside of his nose and giving a nod up the chimney he rose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trivia Answers The Butler was Bannister and the Grinch Stole Christmas | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

...They'd be a hell of a lot better off if they'd quit horsing around with the girls and nourished their minds and bodies with more active endeavors than courting," he said while waving a finger in my face. "There's no place for them [girls] in society-at least during the college years, and Harvard students have got to watch out for the many girls on the prowl or they'll end up carrying the girls who were at first sitting on their laps," he added...

Author: By J. J. Hines, | Title: Hinesight | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

...contrast, nothing worked right for the Republicans in Illinois, where Senator Ralph Tyler Smith lost badly to Adlai Stevenson. "I thought I had my finger on the people's pulse," Smith lamented, "but I obviously miscalculated. I just must have misread what people were really concerned about." Actually, Smith had little chance, regardless of his strategy. The Stevenson name and stolid, sincere persona were just too potent for the Republican state legislator who had been appointed to fill out Everett Dirksen's unexpired term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Issues That Lost, Men Who Won | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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