Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched the ball sail into the left field seats, Bevacqua jumped in the air and spun around at first base. He pumped the number-one sign with a finger as he rounded second, and as he trotted around third. Bevacqua pressed both hands against his lips and blew a kiss, he said was meant for his wife in the crowd of 57,911 at Jack Murphy Stadium...
...planners have been trying for several years now to devise military equipment that can be operated with picture symbols. When and if they succeed, another milestone in nondiscrimination will have been passed--the literacy barrier. Try to ignore the preposterous image of an illiterate soldier poking his or her finger at a pretty, multicolored computer graphic to launch our country's most expensive high-tech armaments. Concentrate instead on the whole new class of desperately poor, conveniently patriotic citizens who could then be pronounced fit for service...
...Monday, the President was to deliver a major address before the General Assembly, his third appearance at the U.N. Though Reagan planned to touch on a number of world trouble spots, White House aides expected him to refrain from finger pointing and instead express confidence that progress can be achieved through good-faith negotiations. The second half of his speech was to be devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals...
...Ellis Finger, Director of the Williams Center for the Arts, in Easton, Pennsylvannia, where the shows were Monday and Tuesday nights, remarked especially on the technical production of "Six Characters...
...traditional play is not an easy one to perform because of the heavy text, Finger explained. "Brustein's modernization was superb," he added...