Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York incident demonstrated the intolerance of many straights. Finger-waving and beer-throwing are not befitting a country that just won a noble war in the Middle East. Many of those who were hurling insults on St. Patrick's Day will probably blow kisses to our returning trooops when they march in this summer's victory parade down the same avenue...
Well, actually it wasn't an arm and a leg. More like a finger. Still, because I had done my return with one of those computer software packages that promises no mistakes (and because my name and face were on that computer software package), I was more than a little curious to know just what the error...
...abroad did not make us any more peaceful at home. A man in New York City was acquitted after he cut up his girlfriend for throwing him out of her apartment and served her stewed finger to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. The jury decided he must have been crazy. Police in Florida hunted down a roadside serial killer -- a 34-year-old blond who had signed a movie deal for her story before the charges were even brought. Westchester County, N.Y., is hosting the "Fatal Attraction" trial, in which a besotted schoolteacher is charged with murdering her lover...
...military issues. In addition, the Council on Foreign Relations provides an internship program for military officers. The Pentagon even runs a "charm school" (properly called the General Officer Orientation class), where freshly baked brigadiers are taught social graces that include the proper choice of forks as well as the finger-bowl ritual...
Jordan, with the largest Palestinian population in the world, keeper of the West Bank for 19 years, has never lifted a finger to help the Palestinians...