Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...
Europeans generally deny that, as the old saw has it, their economies develop pneumonia whenever America sneezes. Still, political leaders are quick to point a finger abroad when it suits them. Just as some American politicians blame Japan for the recession, the U.S. is a popular whipping boy in Europe. French President Francois Mitterrand finds his popularity plunging along with his economy. On national television last month, he claimed the country had been growing until "suddenly the bad news arrived, mostly from...
...Absolutely, absolutely. Everything will remain as it has always been. Any alarming speculation, here or abroad, about who will have his finger on the button is groundless...
...Kennedy was killed. They immediately were, in a sense, trivialized by the questions of who and how. It all became a matter of scenery -- Oswald, Ruby. Scenery distracts from the essential questions. Who benefited? Who had the power to cover it up? I don't point the finger of evil intention, but it is documented that the agency spent quite a bit of money to keep a leg up in journalism, that there were a lot of people working on their payroll...
During more than five hours of cross-examination, the alleged victim held to her main accusation with steely insistence. Only on Thursday did she let her anger break through. With her eyes swollen from the tears, she leaned forward and wagged her finger at Smith across the courtroom. "What he did to me was wrong," she said. "I don't want to live for the rest of my life in fear of that man. I don't want to be responsible for him doing it to someone else." Presiding judge Mary Lupo ordered jurors to disregard the statement. When attorney...