Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Permanent residents of Cambridge's third precinct in the eighth ward must have felt like they were voting in an Undergraduate Council election yesterday, not a presidential primary...
...gets along with everyone, and it's easy to joke around with her," Keffer says. "She's also been a different coach since Jared was born. He was the one thing I felt was missing in her life...
Poker players rejoice when they detect a fish -- a cheerful, tireless, well- funded loser -- radiating stupidity from across the green felt. Poker, of course, is a low pastime, whereas investment counseling, stockbroking and commodities trading are honorable professions. Still, suggests amateur Investor John Rothchild in this wry and funny confession, the professional gents and ladies of the financial markets are by no means reluctant to gnaw underachieving seafood when it presents itself...
...bathroom mirror while shaving. Rothchild, an author and free-lance journalist when he is not playing the market, had earlier broken about even in some desultory investments ("Breaking even," he explains in a helpful Fool's Glossary, means a "loss as explained to family, friends, and neighbors"). This, he felt, was because he did not know what he was doing. His new idea was logical: take a year to learn as much as possible about investing, then live solvently ever after. His stake was about $16,500, accumulated by selling an old car and a used dinghy and by throwing...
...felt nervous earlier in the day and, scared of getting an upset stomach, limited herself to a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec. Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO). Moments later, she burst away from the line...