Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rocky start," coxswain Travis Metz said. "We haven't had a good start all year, but even when we were down four seats, I was not terribly scared...
Another quick cab ride deposits the visitor at New York's most ecstatic secular event: Amateur Night at the Apollo. A great seat for this slice of Harlem history costs just $12. Almost all major black entertainers played the Apollo, and many got their start at the Amateur Nights that have been held for 50 years. From the beginning, the host has been Ralph Cooper, who can still boogaloo and scooby-doo like a septuagenarian Michael Jackson...
...above gimmicks. Pushing his slogan "A Smoke-Free Society by the Year 2000," he adopted a kindergarten class whose students pledged not to start smoking ("Like Communists," he says, "you have to get them when they're young"), and everywhere he goes he hands out buttons saying THE SURGEON GENERAL PERSONALLY ASKED ME TO QUIT...
Everybody who is somebody has got to take a hit now and then. When you are famous, people start rehashing your sex life, and, first thing you know, your reputation goes down the tube and your nomination with it. Happens all the time. Gary Hart. John Tower. Aphrodite...
...immediately began telling me how to improve my play. `You've got to start doing this and stop doing that,' he said--a typical short, Jewish kid telling a big guy what to do," Walton told the laughing audience at Temple Emmanuel. "Thank you, dear Abbie. You were the Celtics true sixth...