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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequently, when Joan Bok became an object of general opprobrium, Derek Bok permitted her to take the brunt of the criticism. The president passed up repeated opportunities to describe his role in the affair and assume full responsibility. It was not until Joan Bok privately pointed a finger at him and a reporter confronted him with the story that the truth was told...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Fairness and Openess | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: When Apathy Is Pathetic | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

...members who are out there are just pointing a finger. How many students would be willing to throw their IBM PC's and Kodak film out the window?" asked Jeffrey S. Bartel '88, a member of the Republican Club. "You are protesting authoritarianism by authoritarian rules," he added...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Debate on Shanties Draws Few | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...loss marked the last game for seniors Lisa Backus, Meave O'Mara, Elise Dalboni, Jennifer Childs, Ann Pellegrini, Sue Virgo, and Jenny Windsor. Windsor played the entire first half despite fracturing one finger and dislocating another...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Sportswrap | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...week these uncertainties stoked tensions toward a fever point. It began with American officials pointing a menacing finger of suspicion at Libya as instigator of the bombing of a West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Gaddafi | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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