Word: fink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Fink, one of the slide show creators, said yesterday that a previous AFSC production illustrated the connection between new technology and the war. The show released yesterday is designed to "bring this home to Massachusetts," Fink said...
...tape of "Business as Usual" contains selections from interviews with present and former employee's of the corporations mentioned in the production. Fink said that the makers of the slides and tape found working conditions in the companies characterized by "alienation...
Even law-and-order advocates sometimes find their sensibilities offended by that most unstable adjunct of police work, the informer. Trained from childhood to disparage tattletales, Americans have hardly a decent word for those who give information to authorities. The glossary runs to such pejorative nouns as fink, stoolie, rat, canary, squealer. In some police argot they are snitches. Yet no major police force can operate without some of the shady types who will go where cops seldom can, perhaps to a meeting of conspirators, or do what cops won't, for example, shoot heroin before a cautious pusher...
Before games this past season, the nine-man squad held small, self-conscious debates over who would show his face on the court first. As for pep talks, they have been abandoned by Joseph Fink, an entomologist who became coach two years ago after the original choice failed to show up. "I used to try to give them a pep talk, but it made them nervous," says Fink. "One boy started shaking and dropped a cup of water all over the place...
...Coach Fink is frankly puzzled by Friendsville's losing streak. He has read all the books on coaching, he explains, and has consulted with all of the coaches from neighboring schools -to no avail. As he watched his team prepare for last week's game, Fink may well have provided the answer. "They don't know what it is like to win," he said sadly. "Consequently, they don't know...