Word: fingers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hilary] couldn't control her dad's death, here was one she could," Ginny left the decision making in her daughter's hands. A five-night vigil at the hospital ensued. Hilary sat for hours patiently brushing Timothy and offering him tiny morsels of cat food on her finger. Finally the vet told her that the animal was not getting any better. Hilary thought for an hour and said that Timothy should be put to sleep...
...Qaeda sniper in particular was getting on Perez's nerves. Hiding 500 yards away, he'd come out shooting--and he seemed to be spotting for a mortar unit. He'd wave and flip his middle finger at the Americans before ducking back inside his stone nest. He continued to elude U.S. fire until Perez teamed up with Sergeant Jerry Higley, another squad leader. Their M-4s didn't have magnifying scopes, and the distance and rising trajectory of their bullets made hitting the sniper a challenge. So the two sergeants began working together. Higley squeezed off rounds as Perez...
...Naipaul's early novels are hilarious, but his essays, sententious and sermonizing, have an unflagging seriousness. Even when he is traveling he is wagging his finger. He mocks the West Indies; he is unsparing on India. For him, Africa is simply a study in nihilism. He misses the joy in Africa, is panicked by the sight of bush, takes African leaders to be representative of their people. The point about Africa is not that it is hideously governed?anyone can see that?but that its people have learned survival skills and thrive in spite of their greedy governments...
...handmade paper. The walls are a washed-out olive green, and Tang's jewel-toned works lean against furniture and walls with a deceptive casualness?precisely where they will be noticed most. In contrast, Guo Haiping's studio in the city center is haphazardly filled with his signature finger-painted monochromes and random objects?a toilet hangs on the entrance room wall, covered from top to bottom with Guo's red fingerprints...
...zero temperatures and several fishbowl-like working environments where the tourists can gawk at museum specialists. The Digital Archiving Lab and Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Lab are located on public floors, and are fitted with clear windows so that tourists can stare at the working experts and leave finger and nose-prints on the glass. My perusal of the first floor revealed much the same fishbowl-like setup for the exhibition-in-progress about Julia Child’s kitchen—an exhibition on which I vaguely recalled I was to work...