Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confessed that he had no definitive methods for making the program's existence known. "Maybe a poster with W.E.B. DuBois pointing his finger and saying, 'This is for you,'" he suggested...
Hopelessly awkward in even the simplest social situation, Gundzinger trips on cobblestones, drops her sunglasses, gets sick at weddings, gawks when talking to male colleagues, and cuts her finger three times in less than two days. For an independent "modern" career woman, she seems curiously naive and ill-at-ease with her own sexuality; confused by her attraction to her future step-brother, she invites him to her hotel room for a drink and then awkwardly confesses she "has never made love to a stranger before...
...decline in America's morals, Trippett catalogues examples of public skepticism as to the claims of various pitchmen, politicians and bureaucrats. Yet what is wrong with a public attitude of self-reliant doubt? Would a country of credulous gulls be more moral? He also points a finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat one another...
...last week. But as long as the U.S. is contemplating only limited and nonlethal resupply of Iran ? and as long as Iraq relies on Soviet arms ? Administration officials are reasonably confident that the U.S. can remain technically neutral and that the Kremlin will limit its response to finger-wagging editorials and propaganda...
There are no wicker baskets around this year. Instead, TV viewers will be razzle-dazzled with more computer-generated graphics, more computerized data collection and less finger-in-the-wind speculation than ever before...