Word: hand
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...noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...
...does not like downhills, and he won't run these down-in- flames plunges. He won golds in slalom and giant slalom at the Lake Placid Olympics in 1980, then was banned from Sarajevo because he did not meet the tortured Olympic definition of eligibility. He'll be on hand at Calgary, still rich from fees and endorsements but once more eligible. Stenmark is the archetype of an age of skiing specialists, and Zurbriggen is the best of the handful of world-class racers versatile enough to beat the specialists in any event...
...younger sister and a downhiller on the national team. As a teenager, Pirmin spent a year cooking in the hotel kitchen, and now, during a short Christmas break, Mama Ida joshes contentedly that bookings are full, so it is good that Pirmin is there to give them a hand. The ski hero, whose income approaches $1 million a year, does, in fact, take a turn behind the bar in a lounge filled with ski trophies, though more photos are taken than drinks poured. Gravely, he tells TIME's Robert Kroon that yes, after his racing days, "I will take over...
DESCRIPTION: Cash on hand as of January 1, 1988, and contributions made in 1987 to presidential candidates George Bush, Pat Robertson, Robert Dole, Michael Dukakis, Jack Kemp, Pierre du Pont, Richard Gephardt, Paul Simon, Albert Gore, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Bruce Babbitt and Alexander Haig...
...potential," the doctor wrote later. "Her only words to me were, 'Let's get this over with.' " The resident took her exhausted plea literally and instructed a nurse to prepare an injection of morphine, "enough, I thought, to do the job." Then, as a woman visitor held Debbie's hand, "I injected the morphine intravenously and watched to see if my calculations on its effects would be correct." Within minutes the 20-year- old woman was dead...