Word: spinner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After switching to a spinner bait--a silver spoon of sorts with a hook--I snagged a small fish of my own. Actually, it is possibly the smallest fish I have ever seen. At time of print, I am not certain as to whether the tiny whiting was actually hungry or was attempting to engage in fin-to-fin combat with its peer out of insecurity...
Clark writes novels that could be movies in which Henry Fonda and Robert Mitchum steal scenes from each other. His 1997 debut, In the Deep Midwinter, established him as a sensitive and forgiving spinner of sepia-colored tales that find the tenderness in men. His new book is more of a morality tale dressed as a murder mystery. Mr. White is a painfully shy salesclerk who photographs showgirls in his room; his alter ego, Wesley Horner, is an anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn...
...Atlanta-based company. At the time Coke was an omnipresent but floundering symbol of American business and culture. Subsequently, Goizueta became one of the most highly regarded of all CEOs, having turned one of the world's most nonessential consumer products into a money spinner with annual sales of $18.5 billion. "No one loved the Coca-Cola company more than Roberto," said Berkshire HathawayCEO Warren Buffett, a Coke board member. "He was a great leader and a great gentleman...
...time, of course. Watch one of our shlockier televangelists, and you'll be introduced to an affable deity eager to be enlisted as your personal genie. Yes, the Great Spinner of Galaxies, Digger of Black Holes is available, for a suitable "love offering," to relieve the itch of hemorrhoids and help you prevail in office intrigues! At least the ancient Hebrews had the good sense to make Yahweh unnameable and unseeable except in the flames of a burning bush--a permanent Mystery...
...Kelly is prepared to sign," brother Don told Spinner the next morning. Widnall, meanwhile, was at the Pentagon, where she worked out with weights, then pedaled furiously on her exercise bike to think through the final decision she would make. By 5:30 p.m. she went before the cameras to announce the resolution. "Although it is the adultery charge that has received the greatest public focus," Widnall said, "it is the allegations of lack of integrity and disobedience to order that have been of principal concern to the Air Force. It is primarily those allegations that have made an honorable...