Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Masson wines. In the funniest of the commercials, he bursts into a locker room as a group of huge football players are about to give themselves a ritual champagne shower after a winning game. "Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw. "This is Paul Masson champagne." Holding a bottle close to one dull-looking jock, he asks, "Can you read?" "Vintage 1980," the (cowed) player replies. "Remarkable," responds Gielgud with good-natured sarcasm...
...Indians venerated them as gods. Weighing as much 1,000 Ibs. and rearing up to 8 ft. on their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
...pitched for an Army team more than a quarter-century ago, "reached back a few years for the best fast ball I could find," and struck Ernie Banks out swinging. Catcher Albano and Short stop Ike Ackerman, a 44-year-old Iowa attorney, rifled sharp singles off Cub South paw Rich Nye and wound up with 1.000 batting averages against big leaguers. "The vodkas helped," declared Albano. Lessel came within a prayer of knocking a 355-ft. homer. The Arnold family went home happy: Father Leonard managed a grounder, Son Larry stroked a solid single, and twin Gary struck...
...prepared to lock arms with Japan's heftiest Sumo wrestler, Takamiyama, whose name means Mountain of the Lofty View. The 6-ft. 4-in., 448-lb. colossus, born Jesse Kahaulua in Hawaii and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, disarmed Mrs. Thatcher by cuddling her hand in his great paw. "Your hands are so soft," he said, "and your eyes are just like my mother's." Thatcher responded by awarding him a sumo cum laude on his physique. "You must be very fit," she said somewhat superfluously...
Since I am unable to hear, I have a hearing cat. She wakes me in the morning by gently patting me with her paw. She alerts me to unusual sounds like door knocks. When given love and the chance, cats and dogs are sensitive to their owners...