Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling of an est weekend by pounding your finger with a hammer. It feels so good when you stop...
...inclined to doubt that the Mafia had ordered Bolles' assassination. Said a Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff...
...woman said, "One has to study and study and study and then still something is left if you've studied enough." Still, her daily translation of missionaries' writings describing narcotic plants of the new world which, she said, she types out "with one finger," seems to have been inspired by a personal rather than a scholarly interest. Both her father and her sister whom she joins every summer in Switzerland, are "real botanists" and the woman tends 39 plants in her apartment. She claims that she knows more about plants than any graduate student and in fact seems faintly suspicious...
...long-time advocate of granting credit for musical performance combined with analysis, Kirchner has always focused his efforts on the upper crust of Harvard musicians. "Unless you have a high-powered, hot center, the other stuff turns to garbage, like finger-painting," he says. But while Music 180, the advanced performance course Kirchner pioneered, remains relatively elite--last year it accepted only 29 of 100 applicants--the course seems downright plebeian alongside the Chamber Players...
...This wet spot on the side of the dam started spurting a little water and I asked my mother, 'Do you think we should notify the authorities?' She said: 'I don't think it could be too serious because nobody is sticking his finger in the hole...