Word: aproned
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...pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock 'n' Roll was still on apron strings. He demanded that her casket be opened. Then he babbled childish words to her "sooties"-their private name for feet...
...again dropped his hands. After throwing a right lead, he pounded home another left hook that buckled Hearns. Leonard bore in now with furious uppercuts that set Hearns' head up as a target for withering combinations. Chased to the ropes, Hearns finally went down and out onto the apron of the ring, climbing back in to stand for the next assault. Once more-he was knocked into the ropes, but the round ended as Referee Davey Pearl reached the eight count...
...masons say a man will rub enough skin from his hands to make an ankle-length smithy's apron before he masters the art of cutting stone worthy of dressing a cathedral. But in return he is the apple of God's eye, as this stoneworkers' fable illustrates: There was once a mason's wife who enjoyed watching her husband work in the cathedral while she sewed. The bishop knew them both and it became ritual to exchange pleasantries. One day the mason told the bishop his wife was dying and dearly wished to be laid...
...Tiffany," Walter Hoving used to say, but there was never any doubt as to who was His right-hand man. Now, after 25 years as chairman of that most divine of jewelry stores, Hoving, 83, has stepped down-but not, mind you, to stop working. In a starched white apron and starchier style, Hoving bustled through his own retirement party, tirelessly ladling eggnog for employees and friends. He took time out only to accept a sterling silver tray, his farewell gift, and to comment on his next professional endeavor: dispensing pearls of wisdom to U.S. firms on how to enhance...
...hard to believe that the man screaming from the ring apron is the same man who had 50 million people chanting his name when he finally conquered Joe Frazier in the Philippines...