Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pepper can reel off dates, names and long-ago events with startling accuracy. As one of the men who planned the third-term candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt, Pepper not only remembered the date and hotel where the meeting occurred, but he also remembered the food that was served: finger sandwiches." Over a period of five weeks, Gorey followed the endlessly energetic Congressman through a schedule of House business meetings, sessions with Miami constituents and speeches all over the country. It was an agenda that would have exhausted a teenager, and Gorey found Pepper's strength and stamina astonishing...
...Kennedy's usual eloquence ("I speak of peace because of the new face of war"), and it also contained the most important message of his presidency. "We are not here distributing blame or pointing the finger of judgment," said Kennedy. "We must deal with the world as it is, and not as it might have been had the history of the last 18 years been different." He asked the American people to re-examine their attitudes toward the Soviet Union. He set the U.S. Government on a course of creative and conciliatory diplomacy. To show his good faith...
...which will simply enable them to see more clearly the shows they do not like watching anyway. The brave new world of convenience offered by electronic newspapers, home banking and shopping via TV does not thrill them: it seems that people want to balance their checkbooks with pencils and finger the dresses to see if they really are all wool. This, says the study, is an example of the so-called high-tech/high-touch phenomenon, which means that as technology gets more sophisticated, people seek a counterbalance in human contact...
...took a bachelor's degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...
...hospital was very accommodating. Cindy was wheeled into an adjoining empty recovery room, and her mother came in to join us. For a while, we were a larger family, taking turns holding the boy and letting him grasp and hold a finger. Memory says he smiled-though logic says that was probably not possible...