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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entourage of 20 that includes his two wives and several shapely female "secretaries," all traveling aboard two customized 727 airliners he owns. But he's not likely to visit old haunts in Damascus anytime soon. When asked about that destination, an aide shook his head and ominously drew a finger, knifelike, across his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria's Footloose Black Sheep | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come and . . ." The young man slices his finger across his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Back to Yesterday | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

SING A TO Z (A&M) The toe-tapping, finger-snapping alphabet soup on this album, served up by the Canadian children's trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, gets the two-year-olds and thirty-somethings in the house wriggling. When did frog sounds, xylophones, yodeling and zithers ever sound this good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Apr. 29, 1991 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

OUTSIDE THE CASTLE--While capturing for posterity the arborial bliss of the planting of Freedom Tree II, a Crimson photographer was approached by members of the Lampoon. The ever-courteous 'Poonsters generously offered to pose with the sapling: "Want a picture of us giving the tree the finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporters' Notebook | 4/26/1991 | See Source »

...incessant Hoovering of famous figures. After Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley panned Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor in 1981, he received a gilded Gucci box wrapped with gold ribbon. "Inside," says Yardley, "was a bag of fish heads and a postcard of Liz Taylor giving me the finger." The card was signed, "From the friends of Kitty Kelley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeeow! The Saga Of Kitty | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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