Word: finger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While blaming state Democratic tax-and-spendpolicies for the Massachusetts fiscal decline,Republicans also pointed the finger atCongressional Democrats for exacerbating thecurrent deficit crisis and then refusing tocooperate with Republicans on a budget reductionplan...
...started disappearing into the meat grinder, the Polish representatives were virtually all arrested and shot as enemy agents. I came to Moscow from the Ukraine for a Central Committee meeting. Nikolai Yezhov, chief of the secret police, and I were standing around, and Stalin came over. He shoved his finger into my shoulder and said, "What's your name...
...many organized games meant to break the ice among the 500 students in the class of 1994. "This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...
...concerned that he will get Iran's help to break the embargo, and even believes he could win a war. But he might try a (probably unacceptable) compromise offer first. -- As Iraqis loot Kuwait, a finger-pointing debate starts on whether -- and who in -- Washington might have given an unintentional wink and nod. -- Gorbachev asks for the power to decree economic reform, but who cares? Power is passing to the republics anyway. -- History is likely to remember General Jaruzelski more fondly than do his Polish countrymen...
...Iraqization" of Kuwait becomes bloodier, it raises a serious question for the U.S. and its allies: Even if the international effort succeeds in forcing Saddam out, what will remain of Kuwait? Meanwhile, full- scale finger pointing has begun in Washington on a related question -- whether the Bush Administration did enough to prevent the invasion of Kuwait in the first place...