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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Nikita Khrushchev over Berlin, "then that is how you are going to end up." Even then, doubts about U.S. capabilities were beginning to creep into the official considerations. On that evening Kennedy walked over to the globe beside his desk, gave it a twirl, and traced with his finger the perimeter of the free world. How long could the U.S. continue to be the principal guardian of that endless frontier? he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: How to End Up No. 2 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...unfortunate effect of such invective is to obscure Heller's strength as a connoisseur of absurdity. When his novel is as good as gold, it is a stinging satire etched in acid. The rest of the time, it is only a polemic finger-painted in bile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking About the Unspeakable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...Congress has its finger in the wind, and they're going to outdo the President in cutting back," he added, predicting a series of "mini-conflicts" over urban aid programs such as CETA (Comprehensive Employee Training Act), revenue-sharing and Urban Development and Assistance Grants (UDAG...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Tsongas Tells Cambridge Civic Association That Area Cities Have a Chance to Recover | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...lean and limber 19-year-old broke the world indoor records for the high hurdles five times, at distances between 50 yds. and 60 meters. His assault on the record book paused at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden when he could not resist proudly lifting his index finger at the tape. That gesture of triumph may have cost him another world record-he finished the 60 yds. in 6.89 sec., just .01 off his best time-but Renaldo Nehemiah has no regrets: "Up to this point, there were still a few doubts about my dominance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Am No. 1! | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...coordinated with Shingu's chimes, his "sonic gates, soundstairs and sound central" all emit noises as one moves through the station. Janney calls it the "further adventures of translating people's movements into sound," and an adventure it will be. He can't quite seem to put his finger on what he wants to do: "Tuesdays it might sound like oboes inside Carnegie Hall; Wednesdays, tympani in a studio; Thursdays, flutes in the Gardner Museum. His confusion is symptomatic of the show...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Take the Red Line... Please | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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