Word: mortality
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Vocal Amphibian. Nilsson admits to 56 years now. She had not sung Sieglinde, the mortal woman caught in the murderous shenanigans of the gods, since 1957, simply because even the most slow-witted impresario knows that casting her as Sieglinde is like taking a great passer and putting him on defense. Nilsson is the supernatural warrior Brunnhilde...
...punishing Man Mountain Mike with a bone-crunching knuckle headlock. Mention wrestling, and that is what comes to mind for most Americans. Not for the citizens of Stillwater, Okla. For them, wrestling offers far, far more than the dubious diversion of watching overweight meatballs belting each other in mock mortal combat. Reason: Stillwater is the home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the most successful team in college wrestling...
...year's Cornell encounter at Watson (remember when the Big Red came from a 4-1 deficit to edge Harvard 5-4 in OT?) and the ever-haunting specter of the "letdown" the night after against hapless Colgate had most fans believing that the Crimson icemen would joint the mortal ranks of the once-beaten in the ECAC by Monday morning...
...always been a classic mismatch: impervious electronics v. mortal flesh. The computer bills the consumer incorrectly. The consumer writes a letter of protest. The computer ignores the message and all further pleas while grimly sending out tougher and tougher dunning notes and threatening to whistle in the lawyers. The hapless customer may struggle for years to break through the cordon of computers and get to a human being who can understand the problem...
...postwar era, covert action seemed eminently justifiable on the grounds that the U.S. was in a mortal struggle with the Communist world. Now that the cold war has abated and Communism is no longer a monolith, many scholars, diplomats and congressional leaders favor ending the CIA'S covert operations altogether, leaving it an intelligence-gathering agency...