Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 6]; we have used it before. For the sake of American business interests and the political stability needed to ensure their profits, we have denied support to legitimately elected governments and popular revolutions, causing them to turn elsewhere for help. Then we shake an accusing finger in their faces as we staunchly affirm our resistance to Communist incursions...
...conference. He attacked Reagan for offering empty rhetoric - "voodoo education" policies, he has called them -for a crisis that the former Vice President believes requires generous federal aid. "He's willing to fight to the death on the MX," Mondale said, "but he won't lift a finger for education." Not since Sputnik's triumphant flight in 1957 rattled Americans' faith in their public schools has there been such a clamorous national debate on education. With dueling initiatives, Reagan and Mondale have transformed the ordinarily sleepy is sue into the first hot battleground...
Back in his plane over Ohio, Glenn pointed below to a narrow green field and said it was there he had made his first solo flight, at 19, in a 60-h.p. trainer. He traced his finger a couple of miles down a country road. "That's where I grew up," he said, looking down at New Concord, a tiny community of 1,800 in which his father had worked as a plumber. He located the county fairground and the railroad tracks where he used to play. Glenn makes much of the self-reliance he developed in New Concord...
...Britain's '70s Labor government and is still an influential M.P. He is married, has a daughter and is described as being like a "bear," with a shock of dark, tumbling hair. Finally, "Gerry" as he is referred to, is missing the tip of the little finger of his left hand. Such are the telltale hints dropped by Actress Shirley MacLaine, 49, in her recent autobiography Out on a Limb, describing a gent she once had an affair with. Her enigmatic references to Gerry have kicked off, in the land of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, a full...
...Percy broad license for commentary, the most trenchant presented in a theological framework. Painters and sculptors, for example, are the Roman Catholics of art, their tools and materials are sacramental objects. Writers are the Protestants, working alone in a bare room with only a pencil, "like God's finger touching Adam...