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Word: finger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALLY MCBEAL Its finger is on the pulse of the zeitgeist but could only get its hands on a technical Emmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 28, 1998 | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...think Clinton didn't know. He did not just poll about whether to lie in January. He was polling furiously in August right up to his grand-jury testimony, putting his finger to the wind to determine what story told under oath would fly with the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Pyrrhic Victory | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Ethan too has trouble learning his part as a bereft father. He doesn't know which to give the upper hand to--sadness or anger--and whether it's more manly to suffer in silence, drink in hand, or rage out loud, with his finger on a trigger. "This was the fatal habit of Polonius: to stand in the shadows, listening, peering at life with half an eye, letting others take the risk of living and despising them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Common Points of Pain | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

However, the demand for technology has expanded much faster than the supply of people who really know what's going on, people who keep their finger on the pulse of this great expansion. The result is a market for technical interpreters and gurus...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurstons, | Title: Solutions For A Technological Universe | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

...gave Lowell a Saturday-morning tee time. As Lowell finished the 17th hole and drove her cart to the next tee, three club members, including a ranking member of the golf committee, met her with curses. One picked up her ball and put it in his pocket, shook his finger in her face and threatened, "You will never hit another golf ball again." Another man, she says, urinated in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: Putt For Dough | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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