Word: fingertipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate strode genially from table to table, hands outstretched, making fingertip contact with smiling ladies at a luncheon in Manchester, N.H. An elderly woman grabbed him by the sleeve and yanked him to her side. "There are too many foreigners buying up our land," she complained. He bent down next to her chair. "Aw, come on," he chided, "don't look at it as a zero- sum game. We want people to invest in America." She listened sullenly as he tried to explain his vision of an unfettered free market. "Well, you think about it," she interrupted, shaking her finger...
...million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and about a dozen other department-store chains are now getting more than bad news in their monthly bills. Stuffed in with the statements are paper advertising inserts that contain samples of eye shadow. By brushing a fingertip across a colored strip, a woman can try out this season's shades from Charles of the Ritz, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior...
...Beast," a huge set of percussion instruments originally created for the soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now." The cacophany created through "The Beast" is a showpiece of the Dead's kind of musical power. "It's magic when you can bring 5000 people down to just the sound of your fingertip on a drum and then build it back up again from a whisper to a scream," said Hart in "Playing in the Band," a book by David Gans and Peter Simon...
...Layer Fingertip Jello...
Somehow, some way, wide receiver Elton Akins, who had dropped an easy ball only two plays before, made a diving, fingertip catch as he said across the back line, helping Army to the game, 7-7,13 seconds before intermission. They play covered 34 yards...