Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend (and onetime stepdaughter) Nancy Sinatra, Mia wrote this: "My children are a continuous joy. The latest is Soon-Yi (aged 6, 7 or 8 -- we're saying 7). She's from Korea -- was found abandoned in the streets of Seoul -- with rickets, malnutrition -- even her finger nails had fallen off, she had lice and sores everywhere. Now she speaks English and is learning to read, write, play piano, dance ballet & ride a horse. She is also learning that people can be believed in and even loved. These are golden times and I am aware of that every single second...
...Digging a finger into his shirt collar)) Well, of course I'd put my arm around Bar. Only, if she's in a rubber raft somewhere off Alaska and I'm here at the White House, I don't quite see how I could . . . I mean...
When I decided, in defiance of overwhelming popular opinon, that Bruce Springsteen was a square, Katie was right there with me, sticking her finger down her throat in an exaggerated show of distaste whenever my mom played her "Born in the USA" record...
...always said the agreement to protect the airport from ground attack was hanging by a very fine thread. When you start taking mortar fire on the bunkers our people are living in and on the tarmac, that is a serious escalation. Before, we were able to justify putting our finger in the flame despite fighting going on close to the airport. The odd round dropping short can be rationalized, but not when the airport is being directly targeted...
...signals have suggested otherwise. Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who will stand trial early next year on perjury charges, strongly implied that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had offered to reduce charges against him if he would help finger Ronald Reagan. Clair George, formerly the CIA deputy director for operations, who is now on trial for perjury, received a similar offer to name names right to the top. Oliver North, once Reagan's most adoring acolyte, proclaimed his own unclouded version of the former President's involvement in the Iran-contra scandal in his memoirs: "President Reagan knew everything...