Word: calfing
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...though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry," the director assured the poet when she began tugging on her calf-length skirt. "You could have worn your miniskirt for these closeups." "I did," she retorted...
...Wilson for top laurels in the two-mile. Wilson likes to set a fast, steady pace, and the meet record of 9:06.6 should fall. Doug Hardin, who set the record last year, will be competing again after a three-month layoff. Hardin has been hobbled by knee and calf injuries and will probably run cautiously...
...special form of racism became widespread. Yet to the trappers, the Indian woman made the best wife. She skinned and fleshed his beaver and buffalo hides, sewed and ornamented his clothing, fashioned moccasins and snowshoes for him, and prepared him such delicacies as boiled buffalo hump, boiled unborn calf, and dried moose nose. If she had any drawback, it was galloping garrulity: contrary to stereotype, Indian women were constantly giving off streams of village gossip and household news...
Please Order. Why all the preposterous euphemism? One reason is the inarticulate waiter. Until the early 1960s, he knew food almost as well as the maitre d' and used his knowledge to good effect. If the restaurateur wanted to push calf's liver one day, he simply told his men, and they went among the tables and sold calf's liver. But now, "the biggest and most persistent problem in the industry is the dearth of good, experienced waiters," says Joe Baum, vice president of Manhattan's Restaurant Associates Industries, Inc. (Four Seasons, La Fonda...
...McLoone '69 hurt his hip midway through his sophomore year and suffered nerve damage in his left calf early last season. His bad luck continued when he pulled a thigh muscle on the second day of this year's pre-season training camp. But he has recovered fully and now feels he can do the best running he has ever done...