Word: fingering
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...ichi',"went the countdown last week, "four, three, two, one." At "zero," Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone aimed a glove-covered finger at a button in his Tokyo residence. The prime-ministerial pressure detonated a dynamite charge 440 miles north of Tokyo and 780 ft. beneath the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Honshu and Hokkaido islands. The blast blew away the final rock separating two pilot tunnels under the strait that have been boring toward each other for the past 18 years...
...skills to extract its story. On the reluctant process of diamond formation: "They want to be graphite, and with a relatively modest boost of heat graphite is what they would become, if atmospheric oxygen did not incinerate them first. They are, in this sense, unstable-these finger-flashing symbols of the eternity of vows, yearning to become fresh pencil lead." Noting that the last Ice Age stopped around Ebbets Field, vanished home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he writes: "When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front...
...marauding dropped off sharply last fall, making the Mugabe government believe that the guerrillas were running low on ammunition. The latest rash of crimes has led Zimbabwe to point a finger at the white minority government of neighboring South Africa. Emmerson Munangagwa, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office for Security, accused South Africa last week of training a "Matabele brigade" with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the Mugabe government. South Africa dismissed the charge as ridiculous, but diplomats in Harare are not sure. Says a Western official: "It's not in South Africa...
...following a minor car accident-the actress, surrounded by her courtiers, braved her way through early rounds of meetings with a professional élan that would have warmed the heart of Eleonora Duse or, for that matter, Philip Habib. Swathed in a neck brace and with bandaged leg and finger, Taylor, looking a bit like someone who had been wounded in the Lebanon fighting, persevered to keep her appointment with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 69. Although Liz tried to keep her chins up, her woeful appearance seemed to win both the sympathy and the admiration of the Prime Minister...
...conductor, to weld a hundred men into one singing giant, to build up the most gorgeous arabesques of sound, to wave a hand and make the clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them...