Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ENGAGED. POPEYE, hard-bodied spinach aficionado; to his sweetheart of 70 years, OLIVE OYL. The heretofore noncommittal couple will wed next month in a special comic book called The Wedding of Popeye and Olive. Bluto has been invited...
Lucky's vision of replacing traditional Sicilian strong-arm methods with a corporate structure, a board of directors and systematic infiltration of legitimate enterprise failed to impress Maranzano. An ancient-history aficionado and would-be Julius Caesar, Maranzano aspired to be boss of all bosses. Most of all, he wanted to avoid Caesar's fatal miscalculation. He found Lucky too ambitious, too enterprising, too dangerous...
Every football aficionado will tell you that the key ingredient to a team's success is its defense...
...when the game ended just after 2 a.m. in Cambridge, undergraduates of all types--from the avid sports aficionado to the sports illiterate who had only wanted to watch someone from his or her house on television--poured into the streets in celebration. Students hugged and celebrated together. And for one night, the Harvard women's basketball team had united a campus in a fashion more reminiscent of the camaraderie that surrounded the student takeover of University Hall in 1969 than that of the typical Harvard sporting event...
...autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show, it's also the time frequently shown on clocks, 555-1013 is a common phone number, and October 13 is often the date. (It's Carter's birthday.) In Carter's piece, the text...