Word: peppering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's soccer are already playing, with under-19 girls' national team veteran Tracee Whitley and Boise, Idaho native Piotr Makula backing up in their respective goals. Men's Coach Jape Shattuck is also counting on "very, very versatile" Mark Pepper and Nick Hotchkin, who look strong at midfielder. Pepper, an American, hails from Pirmasens, West Germany; Hotchkin from Horwich, England...
...take their company private by paying shareholders for it. Last week they bid $176 million for the big homebuilder. Other companies have been acquired by one of a number of investment firms, including Forstmann Little and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, that specialize in buyouts. Forstmann Little, for example, bought Dr Pepper for $640 million...
...floor in his fourth-floor suite. Jackson appeared next at the White House, to be lauded by the President and Nancy Reagan for allowing his song Beat It to be used in a Government anti-drunk-driving ad campaign. Resplendent in his glittery white glove and electric blue Sgt. Pepper jacket, Jackson looked more like a visiting head of state than a singer. During a White House tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait of Andrew Jackson, whose military jacket was vaguely similar to his own. Later Jackson agreed to meet a few presidential staffers and their children...
...layman. The astonishing procedure, used by Dr. Robert Gale and his colleagues at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, is described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self-consciously uplifting than Pepper's book, Life and Death on 10 West often strikes at the heart and informs the intellect with more force than We the Victors. Both works, however, have splendidly succeeded in substituting the human reality for the demonic metaphor...
...person's guilt or innocence, is the kick-to-test instinct applied to living subjects. It used to be a popular method for deciding whether or not someone was a witch, perhaps because what the practice lacked in fairness (the ancient Hindus tied a bag of cayenne pepper around the head of an accused witch, and suffocation was the only proof of innocence) it made up for in finality...