Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saves money." He touches a finger to his forehead to indicate shrewdness. His small dark eyes look both cold and imploring...
...Give me one more chance?" He holds up an index finger...
...letter asked whether Vienna, W. Va. (pop. 13,000), had any motorcycles, hospital beds, sewing machines, wheelchairs, buses or other equipment to spare. After Mayor William Owens finished reading it, he did what any skeptic would do: he tested the signature by running a wet finger over it. The name Jose Duarte smudged. Says Owens: "It was real." The solicitation was one of more than 100 that El Salvador's President Duarte, himself a former mayor (of San Salvador, the capital), has sent to American cities requesting assistance for his war-ravaged nation. Though many of the mayors contacted...
...certain factory in a quiet part of South Boston something very strange is happening. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a steady stream of men can be seen entering and leaving this room. When they go in, the men have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
...ritual seems "ridiculous" now, the witness acknowledged, but it was deadly serious when he joined the Mafia 37 years ago in Palermo, Sicily. One of the four men conducting the ceremony pricked the initiate's finger and rubbed the blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic...