Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down...
...local Lucky Store in San Mateo, Calif. Even before Lucky's computerized check-out system has finished scanning the bar codes on his coffee, beer and bread, Miller has run his bank card through the system's magnetic strip reader, punched in his personal identification number and poised his finger above a button marked AMOUNT...
...pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort of insult the late Zero Mostel is said to have hurled when he heard such a concoction being ordered. As the legend goes, the great comic stood up in the jam-packed room, pointed a finger at the offender and screamed, "Get out of this restaurant!" Which shows how seriously Americans take their almost-taken-for-granted favorite...
...POLITICAL dust stirred up by David Stockman's kiss-and-tell blockbuster, The Triumph of Politics, has just about settled. A 1000 cc. does of wisdom, too little, too late, Triumph is the first weighty tome in what is sure to be a continuing series of mea culpas and finger pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel...
Perhaps a social stigma now attaches to digital watches. People see you walking around with a bunch of numbers on your wrist and they get the idea that maybe you couldn't tell time otherwise. Never got the hang of it in school. Like reading with your finger tracing the words, guiding your eye. Who wants to be seen carrying a crutch on his wrist...