Word: phil
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Each year Americans consume millions of pounds of French fries at fast-food outlets. While the potatoes are innocent enough, the leading chains have traditionally deep fried them in oil that contains beef tallow. That substance contains cholesterol and saturated fat, both considered archenemies of the cardiovascular system. Phil Sokolof of Omaha, a wealthy businessman and health-food zealot, has been leading a public campaign to urge the franchises to stop using saturated fat to cook their fries...
...suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse. After that incident, Durenberger began giving interviews in Phil Donahue-speak, complaining that he was going through a mid-life crisis and did not love himself enough...
...Wimbledon, will they? Alas, poker is a pure gambling game only in the very short run. Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent...
Managing this traditionally mediocre club is bad enough; having coach and heir-apparent Phil Niekro looking over your shoulder is worse...
Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...