Word: finising
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Jabbing a finger at the audience, swinging uppercuts in air, Nikita promised to sign a peace treaty with Communist East Germany: "We will write finis to the second World War and thereby deprive the West of the right to maintain occupation forces in West Berlin." But for all his fury...
Finis E. Engleman, Executive Secretary of the American Association of School Administrators, counseled educators to listen to advice and criticism offered by laymen, and reiterated the necessity for instilling in all Americans the belief that through better education this country's ills are best combatted.
Fifteen years after Coke's death in 1634, Charles I paid with his head for trying to follow suit. It was Coke, above all men, who wrote finis to the royal four-flush.
In the wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and...
¶ By a small boy: "There was once a merderer with yellow eyes and his wife said to him, If you merder me you will be hung. And he was hung on Tuesday next. Finis."