Word: kippered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was 13, he was shipped off to England to be educated at Rugby. His Anglo-Saxon schoolmates wasted no time in letting him know that he did not fit in; they snickered while, facing his first English breakfast, Rushdie tried to figure out how to eat a kipper...
Pittsburgh (80-82, NL East, tied for fourth): This team is young. Brian Fisher (11-9) and Bob Kipper (5-9) are the only two starters with more than two years of playing experience. Mike Dunne (13-6, 3.03 ERA) led the staff in victories. Mike LaVellere (.300) and Andy Van Slyke, former St. Louis players, sure made that deal for Tony Pena look good. Best player: Van Slyke...
...didn't even realize she wanted and didn't set out to get." Two things, anyway: a doting husband as dotty as she is and a three-month-daughter. Of Martin von Haselberg, 38, a commodities trader who has cavorted as a performance artist under the name Harry Kipper, Midler declares, "He sees to the heart of things. He respects and supports what I do. And he leads me, too, when I lose my way." Now listen to the new mom, 41, on the subject of Sophie ("not for Sophie Tucker") Frederica ("for my | father Fred") Alohilani ("Hawaiian for 'bright...
...Iran willingly complied. The hijackers called for the release from Kuwaiti prisons of their "innocent brothers," who they claimed had been tortured by "the joint butchering machine" of Kuwait, the U.S. and France. They admitted murdering two Americans and vowed to kill a third, whom they identified as "Charles Kipper," along with three Kuwaiti diplomats if their demands were not met. The American and Kuwaiti hostages, the hijackers declared, were "no more than a group of criminals who deserve to be killed according to the judgment of God and the Koran" and would never be let go, only "killed...
...other hand, many experts believe that if Washington persists in spoiling for a battle with Syria, Assad will only gain prestige in the Middle East for standing up to a superpower. If the U.S. respects Syria's interests, its wily leaders may respond positively. Says Judith Kipper, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "The Syrians are very eager to be treated as grownups and taken seriously...