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...likes to have choices for PB&J b) finger paint has "icky" consistency c) he mastered the early version of Guess That Jelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Aug. 27, 2001 | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Once again, Saddam has managed to put his finger in Washington's eye. The U.S. has been huffing and puffing, trying and threatening to blow Saddam's house down for more than a decade now, and he's still there doing stuff that makes America mad. The reason isn't that American policy is completely wrong; it's just that it's a very difficult situation. It's easier to make plans and wish lists than it is to execute them, particularly since it's not a bilateral U.S.-Iraq conflict. It's a multilateral conflict, involving Arab states that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding the Intifada Wave, Saddam Scores a Hit | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...L.B.J.'s ambassador to France to come home and campaign for him. Ted paid him back four years later by objecting to George McGovern's choice of Shriver as a running mate. And when Shriver ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1976, Ted didn't lift a finger for his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Kennedys | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...swept him away. Open-heart surgery was big news. One of the pioneers was C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota, a local celebrity on the order of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The operations were enormously expensive, the survival rate around 50%, and Minnesota has always had plenty of finger waggers to remind you that all that money spent to repair that fat man's aorta could have bought nourishing breakfasts for X number of orphans. But Doc Lillehei was surrounded with innocent kids with congenital heart defects, and nobody said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Just Needed A Valve Job | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...think I'm joking? Well, if one company's vision of the future of online reading is to be believed, folks who eyeball each line with a snail-like finger had better have deep pockets. On Monday Rosetta Books, a major player in the nascent e-book market, announced a "$1 for 10 hours of reading" deal. You pay a buck, download the book, then 10 hours later the text gets all scrambled up. Haven't finished? Tough luck; you have to pay again to unlock it. Right now this is just a trial deal attached to one tome - Agatha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Column Will Self-Destruct in 60 Seconds | 8/8/2001 | See Source »

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