Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan plans to submit to Congress a package of legislative proposals. One would create a "blab" fund offering rewards of as much as $500,000 to informers who finger conspiring terrorists. Shultz is especially incensed at what he calls "state-sponsored terrorism," and has accused four nations of practicing it: Libya, Iran, Syria and North Korea. He thinks the U.S. and its allies should regard such conduct as "a form of warfare" and respond accordingly. The State Department recently warned six East bloc nations that they cannot hope for improved relations with the U.S. if they continue to provide support...
Morgan predicted that Finger might have the most success in suing the goalpost manufacturers...
...think defeating Reagan is God's work," said Shannon "but there's a chance he'll be re-elected President. If he is, you're going to need people in the Senato who aren't satisfied to just sit there and point the finger of blame. They'll have to work nine-of-five to change the policies of this country...
...computerized voting list, mark it, and hand out a ballot emblazoned with the party emblems of the competing candidates. After the voter marked his ballot and placed it in a transparent Lucite box (to forestall accusations of ballot-box stuffing), his ID card was stamped and his finger dipped in indelible ink. AL told, more than 180,000 people monitored the process. The commissioners forgot just three things: the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, the dislocation produced by more than four years of civil war, and the lack of sophistication of most Salvadoran voters...
...childish vulnerability caught me by the heart and the throat, nowhere else, it seemed. But there was a touch of panic too. I knew that the finger was on me, I was limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...