Word: fingering
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...pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down...
...POLITICAL dust stirred up by David Stockman's kiss-and-tell blockbuster, The Triumph of Politics, has just about settled. A 1000 cc. does of wisdom, too little, too late, Triumph is the first weighty tome in what is sure to be a continuing series of mea culpas and finger pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel...
Perhaps a social stigma now attaches to digital watches. People see you walking around with a bunch of numbers on your wrist and they get the idea that maybe you couldn't tell time otherwise. Never got the hang of it in school. Like reading with your finger tracing the words, guiding your eye. Who wants to be seen carrying a crutch on his wrist...
...subsequently, when Joan Bok became an object of general opprobrium, Derek Bok permitted her to take the brunt of the criticism. The president passed up repeated opportunities to describe his role in the affair and assume full responsibility. It was not until Joan Bok privately pointed a finger at him and a reporter confronted him with the story that the truth was told...
...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...