Word: aproned
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...announces the fight will not continue. Larry Holmes, champion, has defeated Scott Ledoux, challenger. The Ledoux partisans express their disapproval of the referee's decision with a torrent of boos and a barrage of debris. A large man moves quickly from his ring-side seat to the ring apron, careful to place himself in line with the television cameras...
...sweating. "I want you Larry Holmes, I want you!" The words are forced. Thinking hard, trying to keep the attention of the man who controls the cameras for ABC, Ali moves towards Holmes for a direct confrontation. The ring apron is only 18 inches wide; Ali is awkward in his attempts to draw nearer to his ex-sparring partner. He continues to shout, but the words are slurred. Brain damage, a British physician has speculated. Ali almost slips and has to grab the top tope of the ring. He frowns. He knows ten million television watchers have seen him lose...
...Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent cuisiniers prepared as the camera recorded each deft whip and slice? "A mess," confessed Pépin, doffing his apron and sitting down to tomato bisque, piccata of veal, and pommes parisiennes, with a '78 Widmer Cayuga, all done by someone else...
...second problem is her son Homer (David Rounds), who has clung to her apron strings for 40 years, not without her complicity. Homer, a man of glacial agility, is bringing Myrtle Brown (Lois de Banzie) home with him. She is a girl he has known for twelve years, dated for seven and been engaged to for five, without his parents' ever having seen...
...Pray, Help the Cook Another Day." So reads the prayer put in the kitchen of the London mansion occupied by the Vatican's Ambassador to Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted...