Word: mane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
RETIRING. Andre Agassi, 36, onetime wild child of tennis who shed his crazy mane but kept his zinging ground strokes and became one of only five men to have won all four Grand Slams (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens); after the 2006 U.S. Open...
...Shaun White, 19, the Michael Jordan of the half-pipe (the 16-ft.-deep mountainside trench in which snowboarders do their tricks), muffed a landing on his first qualifying run, a potential knockout blow that would have shocked his sport. But only a blizzard could keep that shaggy red mane off the podium. To clear his head, the "Flying Tomato" took a few easy rides with his coach between turns and then rocked the rest of the field when he got back in the pipe...
While students and admirers may know him for his rock-star mane; his popular Core course, Science B-62, “The Human Mind”; and his bestselling books on human nature and cognition, Pinker is currently addressing more mundane matters...
DIED. SERGEANT MARK MATTHEWS, 111, oldest of the "Buffalo soldiers," a legendary regiment of black G.I.s who fought frontier wars with Native Americans (they nicknamed the soldiers, whose curly black hair reminded them of a buffalo's mane), laid hundreds of miles of roads and telegraph lines and won 20 Medals of Honor; in Washington. One of the World War II veteran's early missions was tracking Mexican bandit Pancho Villa along the Mexican border. "I never met him," Matthews said, "but I knew where...
...Lara will be giving a farewell recital in Payne Hall—entitled “Blond(e?)” for her “signature” mane. She looks forward to reuniting for several numbers with some of the “mindbogglingly talented people” with whom she’s had the privilege of working here...