Word: mick
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Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar-on-the-veranda moment for the President, but he was clearly pleased. And, maybe more to the point, relieved...
...their new album, the Chieftains called in a few: Mick Jagger, Sting, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Mark Knopfler, Marianne Faithfull. The result is The Long Black Veil, which after only five weeks in release has become the band's first gold record (500,000 copies). Moloney, 56, may not have smelled gold, or cared if he did. "Who knows how these things will go?" he says, taking a rare breather in a 20-city U.S. tour that includes a St. Patrick's Day concert at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall. "But we had so much fun doing...
...movie chronicles the experiences of 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) who, at the death of her mother, has come to live with her grandparents Hugh (Mick Lally) and Tess (Eileen Colgan). Between her grandparents and her cousins, Fiona is imbued with a heavy dosage of family myths. She is told about the disappearance of her brother, Jamie, when his cradle floated out to sea. She learns about her great-grandmother, a Selkie, who was half-human, half-seal. All this takes place on the lost family island, Roan Inish...
Lieutenant General Bernard "Mick" Trainor and Michael Gordon, authors of The General's War, were among five panelists who debated the outcome of the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraq in front of more than 100 people at a panel discussion at the Institute of Politics...