Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRACK record, it would be difficult to portray the Reagan Administration as anything other than the mortal enemy of open and unrestricted research. In the past few years, while ceaselessly warning about the impending Soviet military superiority (read Armageddon), White House and Pentagon officials have pointed the executive finger at that familiar storehouse for "excesses of democracy," the academic system...
...heighten the partisan conflict on Capitol Hill. "This is no longer an issue of what's good for South Africa," declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. "It's a raw political issue. South Africa is secondary." As for new trade legislation, a top White House aide pointed an accusing finger at Congress. Said he: "Pure domestic political considerations have produced this protectionist rhetoric...
...collision seemed nothing more than a mild jolt. It felt, said Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon, "as though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." She started up in bed, but everything was quiet, so she lay back again. It was 11:40 p.m. Up in the first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said...
...hands have a variety of specific functions. The right often holds the steel-rimmed glasses, occasionally manipulating them when Gorbachev pauses to search for a word. The left hand talks. It can lecture, pointing with one finger, or declaim with the palm up, or thump with its edge on the table, karate style, but always quite gently. It is seldom still. Sometimes both hands work together, the fingers clasped, drumming the table for emphasis...
...term trend toward symbiosis and cooperation. In a few small U.S. cities, the Mexican influence has even made Americans a minority. In Los Ebanos, Texas, 80 miles northwest of Brownsville, Postmaster Lucio Flores was asked how many of the town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless way for neighbors to become friends...