Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firestorm of protest in Europe against what many there see as the clear and present danger of nuclear war on the Continent. While ostensibly aimed at both superpowers, the political agitation in Western Europe has a distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend as Britain's former Prime Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between...
Earthquakes aside, Hollister has small claim to fame. When Babe Ruth arrogantly pointed his finger toward the outfield wall and then hit a home run to that spot against the Chicago Cubs in 1932, it was a Hollister boy, Charlie Root, who served up the pitch. Motorcyclists have long gathered amid the rolling hills outside town for rallies and roguery. Back in 1947 the bikers rumbled into Hollister and lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their...
...opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures" and that her crystal finger bowls symbolize "a neurotic obsession with cleanliness associated with the guilt of the last stages of capitalism...
...baseball's most recognizable physiques. Very visible to start with because of his 6'4, 250-lb fame, he became even more conspicuous on the field with a variety of never before-seen histrionics: the sextuple pump out call, the "outoutoutoutoutout" call at first base, the smoking finger gun-downs of strike-out victims. Luciano animated baseball's mundanities, no runs, no hits, no men left could...
...passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior to the unhappy couple, was unable to pass the buck elsewhere. Since the snake himself once worked for a Superior, it is just as well that he had no finger to point...