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...citing bits of Scripture to proclaim that God has already guaranteed not only spiritual comfort but material prosperity and physical healing. Believers who pronounce their wishes in true faith have already received them, the preachers maintain, even though it may take time for the miracle to be realized. The shorthand version: "Name it and claim...
...What is an A.W.B.? In football circles, this has long been shorthand for an "average white back." Coach Dan Devine of Arizona State, Missouri and other far-flung places happened to use the term in passing the other day, while reminiscing on the occasion of his induction into college football's Hall of Fame. He could say such a thing publicly now as comfortably as Pete Rose, throughout his historic baseball summer, kept noting "Not bad for a white guy." Is racism losing some of its subtlety, or is sport losing some of its racism...
...refined and left a lasting imprint on the detective formula. An "Agatha Christie" became a shorthand description for an unadorned display of crime unmasked by perceptive and relentless logic. She dared readers to outwit her, and few resisted the challenge. Shortly after her death in 1976, one estimate put the worldwide sale of her works at 400 million copies. Given such glittering evidence and the clues provided by her fiction, a mystique was bound to develop around the one whodunit: Agatha the enchantress, the proper Englishwoman with a power to murder and create. When she insisted that the truth...
...wonder of his arthro scopic knee surgery last November, the fact that Spend A Buck began his twelve-race career (eight wins) at Florida's Calder Race Course was a delight of its own. Henceforth, at least for a while, "a Calder horse" will no longer serve as racing shorthand for a second-rater. Both the owner and trainer are recent arrivals in the sport, both of Tampa, Fla. Dennis Diaz, who retired from the real estate and insurance businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With $12,500, which...
...finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become accustomed to the idea that Type A individuals are dangerous to themselves," says Farley, referring to the shorthand designation for hard-driving people who have a tendency to heart attacks. "Type T individuals are doubly dangerous--to themselves and others...