Word: fingering
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...officials survive in the Labor Department; four are out at Agriculture; five have been dismissed at Justice. Only one assistant secretary is likely to remain at Interior. The sacking of longtime Park Service Chief George Hartzog stirred the biggest outcry there. "He has more competence in his little finger than that whole bunch at the White House," growled a staff member of the Senate Interior Committee, which was not consulted on the firings...
...finishing medical school, he spent five years studying piano and conducting at the Detmold Music Academy. There he became frustrated at his inability to make his hands do what he wanted them to do at the keyboard. Despite six hours of daily practice, a couple of trips to a finger stretcher and various remedial exercises, he could not overcome what he took to be his natural limitations, so he abandoned his studies...
Wagner believes that his tests could be used by music academies to weed out unpromising applicants, as well as by music teachers to "locate the exact physical shortcoming of a student and work out compensatory techniques." A pianist with a "stiff" finger, for example, could make more use of an adjacent note. Another result of his research, he maintains, is confirmation that the recurrent inflammations of the hand and arm suffered by musicians are the result of overtaxing their native skills-a musical variation on tennis elbow, football knee and surfer's knob...
Brown, forced into his longest tour of duty of the season via the last of Crimson forwards Tony Jenkins and Marshall Sanders with ever five personals, and Floyd Lewis with a dislocated finger, scored 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the last period and ended up leading the Crimson in both departments with 23 points and 14 rebounds...
...parody of the iron nails used by carpenters. Or Otis Creative Craft's silver wristlets, hammered from antique forks into dazzling abstract shapes. Rings, too, are subject to the New Jeweler's wit, as with the illusory double ring by Elsa Peretti: worn only on the little finger, it extends across the ring finger, appearing to encircle both. At first glance Noma Copley's engagement ring appears to hold an ordinary solitaire complete with 58 facets. On closer examination, the "stone" turns out to be pure gold...