Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope had apparently been hit by two bullets, fired from only a few yards away. One shattered the two joints of the ring finger of his left hand, ricocheted and grazed his right arm. The other blasted into his abdomen, passing completely through his body and ripping up the Pope's intestines but narrowly missing his pancreas, abdominal aorta and spine. For 5 hr. 25 min., as rumors flew around the world and hospital patients in bathrobes mingled with Italian dignitaries and journalists to exchange shocked speculation, surgeons labored to take out several pieces of the Pope...
Doctors said the pope's intestinal bypass may be closed within a week, but added that surgery on the two bones of his left index finger--fractured in the shooting--was not yet being considered...
Your magazine indicates that shotguns and rifles are not the problem because they are the best weapons for defending one's home. You have put your finger on the real issue, the siege mentality of people in the U.S. today, a phenomenon as yet virtually unknown in Western Europe. As long as Americans feel they have to defend their homes with guns, all talk of banning handguns is just alotofmalarkey...
...there were more to come. The following day, after addressing a civic club in Macon, Ga., FBI Agent Michael Twibell not only endorsed Director Webster's statements as "right on target" with "full facts behind him" but went on to finger one category of suspects. "Some of those kids were killed by their parents," Twibell remarked. The motive: the children had been "nuisances...
...arranges his book in his lap, keeping his place casually with a finger, as if he does not expect to be interrupted for long. He settles back. He speaks...