Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also happens to have dark skin and an incandescent personality. The prospect of his success in a nearly all-white sport gives him a marketing potential as remarkable as his distance off the tee. Thus Nike and the golf-ball maker Titleist combined to guarantee Woods a reported $43 million during the next five years for product endorsements. While other golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman have parlayed their championship standings into huge fortunes made off the course, Woods has the potential to take that money-spinning skill to a new level. Even though golf lacks...
...quarter white. She complains about press descriptions of Tiger as black when he's half Asian, but Earl's market-wise formulation is that when his son is playing in the U.S. he's black, and when he's playing in Asia he's Asian. His dark skin makes Tiger (whose nickname was taken from Earl's Vietnamese army buddy Nguyen Phong) all the more appealing in the world of golf, which not only has few nonwhite players but is also played on courses across the country that have systematically excluded minorities. That Tiger could not only crash the party...
...approved IvyBlock, the first drug that can guard against POISON IVY, SUMAC and OAK. The over-the-counter lotion binds with plant allergens, preventing them from penetrating the skin...
...wound in his sacral area, called a decubitus, began to open. It went so deep, it opened to the bone: "You could go put your hand inside it." His doctors wanted to operate, which would have required grafting skin to the wound, but he asked them not to. He had to agree to stay in bed for eight days without moving. The view he had out his window was of a brick wall. He could see only the wall, but he imagined that above the wall was a roof, and above that a clean sky. "I had this fantasy about...
...pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later the meat will be hung to dry at the traveling teepee village that these kids are calling home for the summer...