Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Male Wall. The only people paying attention to the bitter Chinese complaints were a group of Western newsmen. The sight of outsiders overhearing the family quarrel brought fiery Jeannette Vermeersch to her feet and, pointing an accusing finger, she cried to the Chinese delegates: "You are talking in front of the imperialist press-and yet you say that you are fighting imperialism!" Strong-armed Russian males formed a human wall between the reporters and the Chinese as the exasperated chairman adjourned the meeting. The role of peacemaker fell to Guinea's Jeanne Martin, president of the Pan-African Women...
...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
...Hoffa, there is no terrible Teamster whom Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department would rather put away than Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 46, the chunky, highly paid boss of Local 560 in Hoboken, N.J. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1959, Bobby himself first put the national finger on Tony by quizzing him about payoffs from trucking officials in return for labor peace. When court-appointed federal monitors supervised the Teamsters for a time, Provenzano was one of three officials they ordered Hoffa to fire. Instead, Hoffa elevated Tony to a vice-presidency of the International...
...placed on the Dorn payroll at Provenzano's insistence. Communale testified that he received the money, even though he performed no legal services for Dorn. Tony, outwardly confident of acquittal, acted bored during most of the testimony, coddled his chin with a well-manicured hand, his little finger aglitter with a huge diamond. On the stand, Tony was so evasively garrulous that his own lawyer asked the judge: "Please make that man answer the questions. All he's doing now is prolonging this business." The jury ended it by finding Provenzano guilty. He can be sentenced...
...dishes cut from the tops of human skulls, as well as a huge red and yellow bowl containing human thigh-and hipbones-suggesting that the Teotihuacanos may have practiced cannibalism. Teotihuacanos also practiced autosacrifice to Chicome Xochitl, a god of flowers. In this rite the worshiper slashed his own finger or eyelids, allowed the blood to soak into porous paper, which was then burned in small clay bowls...