Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IOWA. Democrats were almost as stunned as Republicans when coolly competent Robert Ray, 53, the nation's senior Governor in years of continuous service (14), announced in February that he would skip a solid shot at a sixth term. "I am at a time in my life," said Ray, "when I might like to try new things." Conceded Timothy Hyde, executive director of Iowa's Republican Party: "Now there is a race, and there wasn't before." State Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, agrees: "There is no Republican now who could win the kind of victory...
...like all this hardship business. I don't like to see basketball players skip their last set on in college. I was overjoyed when Herschel Walker decided not to bring the same practice to college football this year, but you and I both know that he will go next year after he wins the Heisman Trophy that he wants so badly...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...more than 60 years ago. The designers use ample white space to give their work freshness and clarity. They have added a bright red color throughout for emphasis. Complicated material has been arranged in orderly columns. The new system makes it easy to pick out what is relevant and skip what is not. A new table of contents on the inside cover gives an overview of the task ahead. And then the sequence starts: Step 1, Step 2, in an easy downward flow, until at Step 8, which is the bottom line, "Refund or tax payment...
Better to ignore such axioms and skip to the book's true bonuses-the monster monologues in which each little assailant reveals his policies and inner psyche, the cartooned transcription, music included, of the halftime show, the handy drawing of the sequence of bonus fruits, and the reiterated exhortations to "get out of your chair and pump a shiny new quarter into the closest machine." Frankly, if there's one passage worth marking for easy reference at the machine, between games, that basic bit of advice is it. I can't think of anything I'd rather have...