Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national sport-or catching a Thai boxing match, where flailing feet are used as much as hands. Most make a beeline for Bangkok's myriad bars and massage parlors, carefully supplied by U.S. authorities with such useful mimeographed social guidance as "Never point your foot or your finger at a Thai...
...posed in question answer form. Paul Booth, National Secretary of SDS and one of the authors of the exam, said when he was last at Harvard, that SDS's tactics were to hit people in the vitals; by handing out the exam while students waited in line to be finger-printed, he did just that...
...feeling lousy," grumbled Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, as his Montreal Canadiens were preparing for a Stanley Cup playoff game against the Detroit Red Wings. "I get these chest pains right here," he said, stabbing his chest with a finger. "But I've been to a doctor, and he says it's not physical. So I guess it must be mental...
...certain absent look in you when you play. You can imagine that it is not important how you look, but I can assure you that it is. I remember once in Kansas City we were rehearsing and an insurance agent interrupted us. He wanted to insure our fingers, but one of the musicians said: 'Why do you talk only about the finger? Why aren't you concerned about the nose? Do you think any of us can give a recital without a nose?' In other words, the total appearance is of great importance...
...Liberation Front and immediate free elections in those parts of Vietnam controlled by the U.S. had a different problem. If Peabody was having trouble putting his words into thought. Adams struggled with the more conventional reverse difficulty. Uncomfortable during his speech, he clung to the podium, constantly tapping his finger on the wood, his ring glinting through a waterglass with more and more agitation as he searched for adequate words. He couldn't find them. All that came across were the honest, but cliched catchphrases. One admired his courage and regretted his inarticulateness, felt his emotions and didn't believe...