Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JIM MURRAY, 78, irrepressible Los Angeles Times sports columnist whose witty dispatches made him a most valuable player on the sports beat; of cardiac arrest; in Los Angeles. Murray spent 37 years at the Times giving sports junkies a morning fix of his laugh-a-line musings. One of four sports writers to score a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Murray greeted his award with characteristic humor: "This is going to make it a little easier on the guy who writes my obit...
...dried apricots. All the meals are sealed in plastic packets, each of which is coded with a colored dot to indicate which crew member it is intended for. The color code for Brown, the commander, is red; for Glenn, a payload specialist, it's purple. "The shrimp cocktail they fix is very, very good," says Glenn, "as good as what you'd get at Delmonico's. Curt likes shrimp, and I always tell him that when he's on the flight deck and I'm hungry, I'm going to go looking...
...long ago dedicated himself to "the light side of life" knows that the dark side has a way of encroaching, even on post-hippie millionaires like himself. He has worked hard to fix a once broken marriage. He watched his father slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed...
...wondering where my mother was so he could finish and go home. I needed to keep the conversation going and distract him so he didn't just up and leave. It really was a challenge though because Sexy is as intelligent as the garage door he is waiting to fix...
...compared high schools. My mouth closed on itself as I realized that I needn't ask the college question. Fix-It-Boy popped the question instead. Did I go to college, why of course. Where? Well...I searched for an answer. Harvard meant the end of the conversation, and our girl on the scene knew that...