Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Casey, journalists Ted Koppel and William Safire, and several Congressmen. By 1982 he had served enough lamb chops to merit a profile in the New York Times. The story trumpeted his ability to open doors all over town, even though the paper could not quite put its finger on who he was. It called him an international business consultant, party host, foreign agent and research journalist...
...fear into people's hearts. The horror stories of drugrelated murders that we read in the paper every day are terrifying, but they are a type of terror that is far more conventional than the thought of an entire city being vaporized by a lunatic with an itchy trigger finger...
...guess I just did not have enough confidence at the time to "shoot everyone the finger," so to speak. For awhile, I adopted the strangest manner of dress, suitable for gypsy costumes in a late 1930s musical. I despised things Dallas or Southern, and I rejected bar-b-qued chicken, okra and squash souffle. My parents, I think, believed I was mad, and they wrung their hands in despair...
...general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year, then exiled to Turkey. He soon moved to the Iraqi city of An Najaf...
...ring on his finger, senior Greg Ubert couldn't explain what happened to the football team last fall. The magical 1987 Ivy championship season was followed by a miserable bottom-of-the-pack outing...