Word: buffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues...
...year and a half, Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, history buff and former professor, urged Ronald Reagan to sit down with presidential biographers to talk about preserving the record of his White House years. Last week on Valentine's night the minisummit was held around the Hatfield dining-room table in Georgetown. Four noted biographers, the Librarian of Congress and their wives spooned homemade strawberry ice cream and counseled Reagan to cling to every scrap of evidence for history's sake...
...Phoenix in August 1980. The family virtually isolated itself, and the children were expected to spend most of their free time at home. The parents forbade dating for Deborah, and Maria Jahnke insisted on accompanying her teen-age daughter on outings. Jahnke, a former career Army sergeant, a gun buff and survivalist who stored a large emergency cache of dried foodstuffs in the home, often patrolled his house fondling one of his guns. Lamented the green-eyed Deborah to a friend last summer: "They won't let me out of their sight. It's driving me crazy." Said...
Scratch an Italian, you find a pasta buff. Scratch an Italian expatriate, like Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 63 (Serpico, Ragtime), and you find an epicure with the complaint that no one makes pasta like Papa. The son of a spaghetti-factory owner, De Laurentiis last week opened his new $3.5 million, 12,000-sq.-ft. gourmet emporium in Manhattan, the DDL Foodshow. He has filled his showpiece with a 32-ft. counter for cold salads, 20 ft. of charcuterie and 139 chefs, bakers and pastrymakers. De Laurentiis is no stranger to the delights of kitchen duty. "When I cook...
John Womack, Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, is another basketball buff. Before he let the game go one and a half years ago, he used to play at lunchtime with Repetto, who reminisces. "John is not particularly athletic, but he is aggressive." Womack quit the game during his leave because, he says. "I didn't want to spend the time when all my time was my own. Now I don't have the time, literally, to do it in the middle of the day. And you can't play in the morning, and by night...