Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments leading up to the speech, the Pope was reaching out to the crowd. He swept babies into his brawny grasp and kissed them, touched outstretched hands, extended his arms in blessing. At 5:19, the Popemobile had nearly completed its second and final circuit of the square. John Paul had picked up and held high a little girl, her blond hair tousled as he hugged her. After he put her down, recalls Pietro Volpicelli, an onlooker who was standing only 10 ft. away, the Pope was leaning out of his car and "giving his hand to a girl dressed...
Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...
...opening contest, top seed Howard Sands fell to Canadian Glen Michabat a one of the best players in the college circuit 6-2, 7-6. "Michabata is so smooth. He really looks like a pro," captain Don Pompan said later. "Howard gave him a tough match under the circumstances...
...history of the sport. In two years, he took top laurels on 37 of 39 trips to the post, earned $2 million and became the sixth horse to win pacing's Triple Crown. Now that Niatross has hung up his harness for a life on the stud circuit, his sisters, Ellatross and Rosarium, have moved into the fast lane. Berger, who occasionally brandishes a stogie at the race track for Runyonesque effect, turns matronly when talking about the two: she calls them her "girls...
Beyond that, people on the tennis circuit fear that the case could lead to a series of stories about players' sex lives...