Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Mike Palm, a graduate student in English, played volleyball as a Yale undergraduate and made the All-East Coast squad. Unlike other coaches, Palm is not paid...
...White House waved its wand last week-and overnight former Vice President Spiro Agnew was left defenseless in Frank Sinatra's compound in Palm Springs. Finally knuckling under to congressional pressure, GAO rulings and public criticism of the nearly $200,000 spent on Agnew's protection since he resigned in October, the White House withdrew not only his Secret Service guards but his car and chauffeur too. Still, Agnew's trip to Palm Springs had a positive side. He sold his novel, A Very Special Relationship, to Playboy Press for "more than $50,000." The book centers...
...give way to broad tree-lined avenues wrapped in the shadows of the towering hotels, banks, and office buildings built by the money of foreign companies and wealthy local businessmen. Further on still, this district merges into the posh suburbs, where, it is said, one can sit under a palm tree in winter while it snows a thousand feet above on the small huts that from below look like a child's building blocks...
...Usually a canny political fighter, San Francisco Mayor and Democratic Gubernatorial Hopeful Joseph Alioto, 58, has been floored-by his wife. Increasingly frustrated by Joe's passionate politicking, Angelina, 58, went AWOL in January because she felt abandoned when Joe left her in Palm Springs to resume his mayoral duties. After 16 days, Alioto finally announced her disappearance last week. Immediately, Angelina popped up in Santa Cruz on a tour of California missions, and fully exploited her tactical victory. Firmly holding Joe's hand in their San Francisco home, she complained to the press about a domestic credibility...
...lovelier than Elena's farewell to Arrigo, "Ah, parli a un core." Spinning out its delicately chromatic cantilena like the mistress of cantabile that she is, Soprano Caballe stopped the show for a full two minutes and 45 seconds. The applause ceased only when Caballe held up a palm and signaled Levine to continue...