Word: sip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Remar's muscle odyssey suddenly expanded into a serious quest for health. He'd already stopped his three packs a day. In January 1986, he began his new regimen by quitting the booze. For the first three months, he and his personal trainer weighed and recorded every bite and sip he took. "I was scared to eat chocolate cake and thick steak, afraid my blood would rot," Remar remembers. He also went overboard on his exercise program. In addition to weight lifting, biking and jogging, there was a backyard aerobics class that friends were inveigled into joining...
...Bells when he pressed a tiny switch. He's brought in one of his old word wizards, Ken Khachigian, to help sculpt his State of the Union address, which Reagan is counting on to be boffo theater and rekindle the lost love. When his crew of surgeons watched him sip hot water before a radio address, he reassured them, "Both a minister and Frank Sinatra said they used hot water to help their voices, so it must be true...
...only bright light in the room emanates from the TV above and behind the bar. The men hunched over the bar are transfixed by that light, as they are every Sunday afternoon of the National Football League season. They sip their shots and beers, puff their cigars, comment on the action -- "Jeez! Look at that! I could throw a better block right now!" -- all without taking their eyes from the light. Even the bartender, a small man with a nutcracker face, manages to draw a beer while glancing back over his shoulder at the light. "Who do ya like...
...better way certainly seemed in order. Opened in 1950 as a gift to the city from Kate Wollman, a banking heiress, the rink quickly became the favorite spot for tens of thousands of skaters to do their twirls (and spills) and sip hot cocoa on a wintry afternoon. In 1980 the city closed Wollman for renovations, which were expected to take no longer than two years. The city originally estimated that the repair bill would total $9 million, but it eventually reached $12 million without a cube of ice to show for it. The roof of the pavilion, which houses...
These stalwarts are as diverse as they are different from the college students who swarm around the counter from 12 to 3 a.m. and the laborers who casually sip coffee on swivel stools...