Word: fleetly
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...seems to be supplanting Kournikova in the hearts, minds and lustful dreams of tennis fans. Proving more impressive to commentators than her baseline game are Hantuchova's 44-in. legs, which, as the foaming British tabloids have repeatedly noted, are the longest in the women's game. Fleet Street turned on Kournikova after she snubbed a BBC reporter, following which several newspapers ran the same MOVE OVER ANNA headline. Hantuchova, who won a major tournament at Indian Wells, Calif., earlier this year, proved she's a fierce competitor when she commented on the comparisons between Kournikova and herself...
...titles of their RKO movies changed - "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorc?e," "Top Hat," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats...
...last jumbo-jet deliveries Continental will take until the second half of 2003, with the remainder put on hold until demand picks up. Bethune does a few touch-and-go landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter pattern to accommodate a military C-17 transport and a P-3 surveillance plane passing nearby. "Continental 9990, do you need...
Gomes made 15 transfers worth a total of $86,440.74 to Fleet and Plymouth Savings Bank accounts. Pomey allegedly made 13 transfers worth a total of $22,549.22 from the Pudding to her account at the Fort Knox Credit Union...
...vote and assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from a man who, in Vidal's view, is doing more to damage the freedoms he purports to defend than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to do with a fleet of jumbo jets...