Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, David and his wife Linda had been married four years. Their backyard wedding had been a mixture of Buddhist and Christian ceremony. After the bride and groom, sitting before a large painting of a Bodhisattva, clanged finger cymbals and chanted, a Christian minister offered a blessing. It was in late 1994 that Ted wrote asking for money. David sent $1,000 in October. Two months later, Thomas Mosser, a New Jersey advertising executive, was killed by a device the Unabomber had mailed from San Francisco. In February 1995, David sent Ted $2,000 more. Two months after that, Gilbert...
...vandalism is more destructive than in past years, according to Nathans. Parts of the broken finger are still missing, and there may be irreparable damage...
...Recently the John] Adams statue was vandalized.... Someone pulled the finger off. The arm had just been replaced at great cost," Nathans said...
Unfortunately, he and the majority of anti-Confederate Flag militants have yet to realize that modern Southerners view the Rebel Flag not as "a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights," but as a symbolic middle finger cast at those who hold so many racist stereotypes of the white Southerner. --Randy Karger...
...primarily economic conflict, slavery was the primary cause of the war. Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government. It was a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights, not a benign declaration of Southern pride...