Word: bibbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fetching coffee, the nurse placed a bib on Stephen, who has difficulty swallowing, gently held his head forward and poured the beverage, a sip at a time, into his mouth. Meanwhile, Hawking was responding to a question from a student who knelt to read the answer as it slowly took shape on the dim liquid-crystal screen. The conversation shifted to creativity and how mathematicians seem to reach a creative peak in their early 20s. Hawking's computer beeped. "I'm over the hill," he said, to a chorus of laughter...
Last week, as Schnick was about to undergo a lie-detector test, he broke down and confessed that he had committed the murders and tried to frame his dead nephew. Appearing in court wearing bib overalls and a white T shirt, he was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Though authorities suspect that Schnick may have killed to benefit from wills and insurance policies, Sheriff Frager still feels there is some mystery involved. "I don't know what was in the man's mind," he says. "There's always a possibility we'll never know...
...century ago, however, the tuxedo almost got kicked out of Gilpatric's set. Griswold Lorillard -- scion, as social columnists would put it, of the tobacco Lorillards -- showed up in the rarefied regions of the country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells was the inescapable fact that Griswold's tails did not have any. The tailcoat was cut even and short, like a suit jacket. Scion or not, Griswold almost got the bounce, until cooler heads and appraising eyes...
...groove can be like reaching up and flicking on a switch. In any order, the Mahres are capable of finishing one-two in either of the slaloms. Actually, it was Steve who won a World Cup slalom race last week in Parpan, Switzerland, though a mix-up of bib numbers with his brother disqualified him. Phil imagines the reason that he is the greater success is "maybe just because Steve didn't want to be. I was more on course while he was still deciding how he felt about ski racing...
...Take your wife and two teen-agers along and that's $100, Daddy, not counting lunch. An overnight, with dinner and breakfast, costs an extra $200. Figure $500 or more for each adult-size person for skis, poles, boots and bindings, and an additional $300 to $500 for bib pants, ski jacket, long Johns, socks and gloves...