Word: palmed
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...have been reported, although a few people have been hospitalized for severe dehydration. But what baffles the experts is how a rare illness that was once seen only in places like Peru and Nepal has managed to spread so quickly in such far-flung cities as New York, Houston, Palm Beach, Florida, and Toronto...
...behind some of the finest artworks ever produced in ancient America, the most spectacular of which will be on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington starting next week. Titled "Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico," the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Olmec artifacts, ranging from palm-size jade carvings to a 10-ton, monumental stone head. For the next four months, visitors will be able to see treasures that have never before been permitted to leave Mexico. "It's amazing," says one of the show's curators, Peter David Joralemon of Pre-Columbian Art Research Associates...
...Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding social conservatives that he is happily married to his college sweetheart while Warner, divorced from a Mellon heiress and Elizabeth Taylor, is a bachelor who has supported some forms...
DIED. JENNINGS LANG, 81, producer of the blockbuster Airport disaster films and the Sensurround sensation Earthquake; in Palm Desert, California...
Shake hands with the tallest member on the 22nd-ranked Harvard men's tennis team, and your palm will disappear into the same hand that has struck fear into the hearts of opposing players throughout the season. There is no question about it--Tom Blake can handle a tennis racquet like few others...