Word: mosses
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...limited. Limit poker requires knowing the odds, playing tightly and chiseling away at whatever optimists wander into the game. In no-limit, as one poker carnivore tells Alvarez, "the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Shooting back, in one legendary five-month game years ago between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek, came down to a five-card stud hand in which Moss, with a pair of nines, thought he had the Greek locked. Moss figured his opponent for a low pair and discounted his fifth card as no help. He bet everything he had. As Alvarez writes...
...collaborative genius of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart produced many great American plays and one theatrical masterpiece, the 1938 Pulitzer-prizewinning comedy You Can't Take It with You. Across the river from Broadway in Millburn, N.J., it has just been revived, with Jason Robards, 60, in the lead. When Kaufman's daughter Anne Kaufman, 57, and Moss Hart's widow Kitty Carlisle Hart, 65, dropped backstage, it added a familial touch to the family-oriented play that suited Robards fine. The much married reformed drinker is practicing what he performs. "You know what...
...successive rainfalls make the water increasingly acidic, lakes and rivers turn oddly clear and bluish. Their surviving microorganisms are trapped beneath layers of moss on the bottom; the afflicted water cannot support any but the most primitive forms of life. Some areas, rich in alkaline limestone, are able to resist the assault by "buffering" or neutralizing acid precipitation. But much of New York, New England, eastern Canada and Scandinavia is covered with thin, rocky topsoil left by glaciers long ago, and is particularly vulnerable to acid rain...
Soft Spanish moss, green and sometimes gray...
...read a lot: we didn't watch TV" And in a state described on its "Welcome to West Virginia" border signs as "The Closest P'ace to Heaven," a state where a town of 3000 might boast a dozen churches. Klingensmith learned about God, in the backyard with the moss and the grass, and in a relatively liberal Methodist congregation...