Word: seven-year-old
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...FitzRandolph's story in a nutshell: he took up the sport as a seven-year-old after watching Eric Heiden win all his gold in Lake Placid. "I gave up hockey," he said. "Apparently Heiden impressed me more as a kid than that Miracle on Ice team did." The 27-year-old has been focusing on the sport ever since and says it has taken him 20 years to get where he wanted...
...Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter. DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, American WWII veteran who delivered an Oscar-winning performance in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham, Massachusetts. Russell lost both hands in a wartime accident, and despite his lack of prior acting experience, the film's director, William Wyler...
...every pre-trial appearance, Milosevic has responded with political diatribes. He has labeled the charges against him "absurd" and "monstrous," the prosecutor a NATO mouthpiece, the court a "retarded seven-year-old." He has called himself a peacemaker who's on trial to cover up NATO aggression against a sovereign country. The rants have led presiding Judge Richard May to cut off Milosevic's microphone. Milosevic has dropped hints that he might stage a grand scene by calling a parade of Western leaders to testify, starting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will...
...finding ways to keep busy. HSBC has aligned itself with local banks and with the four state-owned major institutions, which gives the London-based bank's customers access to branches across much of China. HSBC last month bought an 8% share in the Bank of Shanghai, a seven-year-old entity controlled by the city. Citibank is reportedly considering the purchase of a 15% stake in the Bank of Communications, the fifth largest state-owned lender, also based in Shanghai...
...pros. And they have learned to live with strictures on violent behavior. Leagues in Reading, as in many other towns, have explicit rules forbidding parents from assaulting coaches. Some leagues even have security details on hand. Andrew Lauria, a police officer in nearby Revere with a seven-year-old son in hockey, is appalled that his service is now necessary. "I'll take the work if it's there," Lauria says, "but, I mean--it's come to this...