Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oscar. Born in Ireland, she graduated with honors from the University of London and became an actress against the wishes of her family. She was discovered in a play by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and became that studio's premier star. Garson's third marriage, to Texas oil magnate E.E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, lasted 38 years. Her later years were marked by philanthropy...
...Crimson players oil their gloves and lace their spikes for these games, they'll have to remember to treat these games with the importance they deserve...
Besides knocking each other around, Martin and Gogarty punched the lights out of several presumptions. First to fall was the notion that women can't box and that if they tried, it would be some variant of boxercise or, worse yet, hot-oil wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions...
...Pillsbury Bake-Off prize for the first time [NOTEBOOK, March 11], Margaret Carlson referred in a scabrously derogatory manner to men's assumed ineptitude in things domestic, notably cooking. Had a male commentator reported with the same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...then, has the Utah delegation proposed such a bill? A glance at the Federal Elections Commission's records on campaign contributions is insightful. Over 30 oil and mining organizations are key political action committee donors to the campaigns of the Utah delegation...