Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with all things bright and Aquarian, it helps to have an open mind. There may be no scientific basis for homeopathy, but when you look into the eyes of Sailor, a buff-colored nine-year-old Persian mix, you want to believe. Three years ago, Sailor suffered from asthma and diabetes. Heavy-duty drugs had sapped her strength, and conventional vets recommended euthanasia. When her owner, Carley Alderman, brought her to Wynn's office, Sailor could hardly move. Wynn confirmed the diagnosis, then changed Sailor's treatment to a series of homeopathic pellets. The cat rallied. "She runs...
...smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks, and the mouth of a randier Damon Runyon...
...Albright was only the opening act. Rotund Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, decked out in the striped garb of a Black Sea Navy sailor, was judged a close second for his delegation's hearty performance of "Moscow Nights" ("The Russkies are your friends...."), while a troupe of breakdancing South Korean diplomats easily won the award for "Most Outrageous...
...death last year, carried her from port to port and, after her husband's appointment as Navy Chief in 1955, to the stately Admiral's House--where she earned a reputation as a gracious hostess and mentor. In her mind, however, she remained, as her epitaph gently insists, "a sailor's wife...
...knots, flanked by her modern counterparts, the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage and guided missile frigate USS Halyburton. An estimated 100,000 people turned out on land and sea for the ceremonial turn, made possible by a three-and-a-half-year, $12 million renovation project. On board, veteran sailor Walter Cronkite, a beloved symbol himself, was allowed briefly to take the helm. Then, seemingly as soon as it had begun, the tow ropes were retied, and Old Ironsides, undefeated in 30 engagements and long the flagship of U.S. naval supremacy, was gently led back to retirement in Marblehead...