Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slipping away at night to the Notre Dame field house for some serious get-acquainted sessions. Before that very first 42-yd. pass against Purdue could be completed, there were a lot of things they had to know about each other. For instance, what kind of delivery does Hanratty prefer? "I like to throw overhand, but if I'm being rushed, I sometimes do a sidearm"-because it is harder for onrushing linemen to block...
...does Seymour catch the ball? "It all depends on how high it is. But I like to get the ball in close to my body and clamp on it"-one hand on top of the ball, the other underneath. Where does Jim prefer the pass to reach him? "Anywhere but low. I don't like to catch it down low, because my face mask hinders me." How does Seymour handle the defensive man guarding him? "The first thing I do is go out and test him. If he isn't going to back up, I run right...
...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
Investors prefer the tangible gilt edges that frame art works to paper ones on stock exchanges these days. As a result, the world's auction houses started off the new season this month with a bang, despite a credit squeeze in the U.S., an economic freeze in Great Britain and a sagging Paris Bourse...
...night at a Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars to St.-Tropez, nearly got killed in an auto accident, twice got married and divorced, made and spent a fortune. "Riches don't keep anyone from feeling unhappy," she said, "but I prefer crying in a Jaguar to crying...