Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers...
...days late, in a possibly related incident, her apartment was her daughter suffered a cracked rib, according to the Botts. Shortly thereafter she "left for her native Haiti in a state of mental collapse...
...netted only $1.1 million. The party seemed only tenuously united, and the candidates had trouble rising above the internecine sniping. With one exception: Jesse Jackson stirred audiences at every stop with his blunt style and rousing rhetoric. Even party fat cats paying $1,000 a plate for a prime-rib dinner in Albuquerque cheered his populist message, delivered in the cadences of a revival preacher, calling for "unity without uniformity" and attacking Ronald Reagan as a "reverse
...cycle's earlier entries, Krull offers battles, special effects and a hero and heroine with all the humanity of furniture on feet. But there are ingenuities of décor and character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this...
...heart that Barney Clark received thus represented more than a quarter of a century of research. Like Kolff's original device, it is powered by air, compressed by an external electric pump. Two 6-ft.-long air tubes, which emerge from beneath the rib cage, connect the heart to the pump and to emergency tanks of compressed air and other equipment, all of which are stored on a cart. Total weight of the awkward external system...