Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have what are euphemistically called "nontransferrable skills." At first, hard-drinking Red Baker, former high school basketball star now turning 40, buries his fear. Each day he sees Wanda, his wife of 19 years, off to her waitressing job, and plays one-on-one basketball with their teenage son Ace. "Act like a family man," he tells himself, "keep your eye on the bright days ahead...
...years ago Harvard lost its top four hitters, its second best starter and its ace reliever. The result last year's Eastern League pennant...
...time it is just bone. It won't come off." The Galanos body has a 32-in. hipline; the adult female body usually does not. Some of the eleven attenuated wisps running around backstage match the ideal. Some require aid such as wrapping their hips in Ace bandages, using a girdle handmade out of half a girdle, layering on support hose--or all three. Galanos cuts his show samples to fit Pat Jones, his longtime associate. In Houston, a model banished from the lineup expressed a desire to force-feed Twinkies to Jones...
Reagan and Kohl spent just eight minutes at the cemetery. Accompanied by two World War II officers--General Matthew Ridgway, 90, who led the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, and General Johannes Steinhoff, 71, a former Luftwaffe ace--they walked a path encircling the headstones, then stopped at a gray wall, where four German soldiers attended two tall wreaths. The two Americans and the two Germans simultaneously approached their separate wreaths. Then they stepped back as a German military bugler sounded a German tribute to lost soldiers, I Once Had a Comrade. Kohl and Reagan met some relatives of German soldiers...
...seventh-ranked player in the nation and the Crimson's ace, Elizabeth Evans, was the victim of a stunning 7-6, 7-5 upset at the hands of Emily Schuette, while Hillary Shane slammed Harvard's number two, Erika Smith...