Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific," said Goodall, wearing rubber gloves as he sorted through the infected fish. "And it doesn't look like it's slowing down...
DIED. RED SKELTON, 84, rubber-faced, gentle-hearted clown who always seemed one laugh short of tears; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. His father, a clown, died before his birth--a mixed inheritance that sent him tumbling from carnival to walkabout, perfecting lugubrious pantomimes and uproarious pratfalls. He landed in such movies as The Fuller Brush Man and A Southern Yankee, but it was his TV sketches, his Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader, that made giddy audiences squeal--for mercy and for more. Skelton, too, often dissolved into giggles at his own antics, even after his son died...
...required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl the brick in the sock through a nearby window and leap out that window to make your escape. It is always best to wear rubber-soled running shoes to your Expos conferences. It's actually best to wear running shoes everywhere...
...week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise Men," a high-octane mix of 151-proof rum, Crown Royal whiskey and Jagermeister liqueur. Wynne "was staggering...
...pluralism," Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will meet Wednesday with representatives of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to sound out their feelings on the peace process. Dealing with the devil, shrieks the Israeli government. Public relations stunt, clamor Palestinian militants. Watch for the belabored Arafat to be stretched like a rubber band on this...