Word: fingers
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...love at first sight," she recalls. But Edwards persisted and won her over with his sunny outlook on life. In July 1977 they married at a small Chapel Hill church with no air conditioning. Despite vastly improved finances, Elizabeth still wears the $11 ring that John slipped on her finger that day, and they still celebrate each anniversary the way they spent the first one: by dining at Wendy...
...Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language based on four consonant and two vowel sounds. At a time when the boom in global communications risks swamping cultures and minority languages, little La Gomera has put its tradition where its mouth is. Shaping a finger like the letter U and inserting it to one side of the mouth, the islanders learned to communicate across the hills and valleys of the roughly circular island, 26 km at its widest. There were no roads until 1935, and in the central village...
...civility, voyeuristic media and male aggression. Was this an attack on Latham or the infotainment-footy-industrial complex? Perhaps Howard doesn't get Big Brother. Or just get out enough. Maybe he's trying to shore up the gray vote who cop the brunt of those road-raging, finger-popping P-platers...
...first court appearance in Baghdad last week, the former dictator sparred with the judge, defended his invasion of Kuwait and even floated a defense strategy, claiming the U.S.-financed tribunal had no jurisdiction in Iraq. "This is a theater by Bush the criminal," he said, wagging an index finger...
...learned of his impending transfer. Saddam's apprehension recalls a comment he made to an Arab leader before the first Gulf War, indicating his sense of how Iraqis felt about him: "If I am killed, there will be no part of me left bigger than the tip of my finger...