Word: bloomerism
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Reagan was wrong in implying that Arlington National Cemetery is the soldier's burial place - Treptow is interred in Bloomer, Wis. - but right about his heroism. Treptow grew up in Bloomer and moved to Cherokee, Iowa, to work as a barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry...
...late bloomer," confesses Raquel Welch on the eve of her 40th birthday. "My mind and my experience have caught up to my body. I feel proud of the way I look, the way I feel. Who could have a better life?" Who indeed! To celebrate the sweetness of midlife, the sex kitten of the '60s posed for a series of birthday portraits by celebrated Fashion Photographer Victor Skrebneski. The pictures went on display last week at the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago, her birthplace. "They are beautiful, just extraordinary," said Raquel. "That's why I chose to drop...
...later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late bloomer, just like you, Dad.' I was a loner, having fun. It was a while before I found a direction...
...ease of Coe's victory dumbfounded his rivals. "He didn't even go full blast," marveled Scott. A graduate this year (in economics) of Loughborough University of Technology, Coe was a late bloomer as a runner. Though a champion schoolboy racer, his world class potential did not appear until later. He ran a 3:57.7 mile in 1977, and he turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett...
...male delirium-this means that virtually every man and boy in Europe and South America, and very large numbers of them in North America, Africa and Asia, and in all the ships at sea, caught some part of the action. In the U.S., where soccer is a late-bloomer passing rapidly from robust infancy to sprouting adolescence, more than 1 million watched on closed-circuit...