Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he was an expert in as sophisticated a field as electronic data processing, Fair preferred being known by nicknames like "Old Hardnose" and "Iron General" and demonstrated a fanatic's hatred of long hair, badly pressed uniforms and off-center name tags. Fair told the Army paper Stars and Stripes: "You have to reward and punish to get what you want done...
...patients call him) has treated more than 10,000 patients. He has a special empathy with the poor. "Look at those pallid faces," he exclaims while examining two sniffling youngsters. Turning to their mother, he asks: "Did I put them on vitamins last time, Mommy? What about iron?" If a youngster becomes ill when the clinic is closed, he asks the parents to bring the child to his house. Though his main emphasis is on the ailing, he does not balk at providing free school physicals and shots for youngsters who cannot afford them. In only two areas does Roman...
...friends tell it, Frank is making $25,000 a year as the New York Post's first-string film critic. Each morning he eats a light breakfast of warmed-over quiche and Nova Scotia salmon on his wrought-iron balcony overlooking Central Park, and then takes a cab six blocks to a screening session, where he rubs elbows with New York's brightest and best. He hurries home late in the afternoon and makes love to his beautiful, glamorous girlfriend. She asks him to marry her, and he refuses. Eventually he gets down to work--he climbs...
...Terriers must have just been catching their breath, because as the half rolled to an end they fired off a 9-4 burst to cut the lead to four at 41-37. As time ran out, Crimson forward Steve Iron hit a shot from the low post to give Harvard and coach Satch Sanders a little more breathing room at the half...
...mainly because of the sort of people who vote in presidential primaries. Reagan, Will says, "is more fun, and basically politics at the nominating level is dominated by comfortable, middle-class, leisured people. They do it for fun, not because they're being ground into the dust by the iron heel of tyranny." Asked his own preference between Ford and Reagan, Will pauses as if he had never considered the question before. "I don't know," he finally replies. "I'm not that interested. I suppose one of these days I'm going to have to get serious about this...