Word: minked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best treats for a string of mistresses. In 1989 a top New York model joined him at the Kentucky Derby. According to the indictment, clients Kelley Oil and ICN Pharmaceuticals picked up the tab. Another model received an $86,000 Cartier ring and a $24,000 full-length mink, courtesy of Myerson's unsuspecting law partners. To attract prospective lovers, sources say, Myerson liked to pose as a movie producer and "audition" young agency models in his office. "To Myerson, there is just no distinction between persuading a jury and persuading his wife or clients or partners of something," says...
...lower down. The press settled in the sulfurous industrial area of La Lechere (now a center for phlebology), and the TV crews a little higher up, in the picturesque village of Moutiers. Highest of all were the I.O.C. officers, delivering their pronouncements from the mountaintop and sheltered in the mink-coat, neon-snazzy resort of Courchevel, the St.-Tropez of snowfall...
...three companies are among dozens of well-known corporate giants that have collected money under a USDA program to find new overseas markets for American food, candy, bourbon, wine, ginseng, cotton, mink pelts and bovine semen...
...conventions of series drama. But even in Dallas' debut, creator David Jacobs offered beguiling variations: a dozen wealthy Texans living, fighting, snarling under one ranch-house roof, a catalog of venality that included every vice but coprophilia and a leading character (J.R.) with the morals of a mink. In its second season, Dallas became a cliffhanger, and viewers hung on. By the 1979-80 season, it was the sixth most popular show on American TV, and for the next five years, it finished either first or second...
...project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long-term contamination effects...