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...hurry), subtract from left to right, or have difficulty with sequential thinking. Despite these problems, they may be intellectually brilliant, with oral skills so keen they are able to bluff their way through early grades. Dyslectics can become high achievers like Edison, Einstein, General Patton, Nelson Rockefeller and Bruce Tenner. But they are often misdiagnosed as retarded or emotionally disturbed...
Match point. Harvard's no,1 player Howard Sands '83 underwent customary Prince growing pains two years ago. Already an established top tenner in junior tennis, Sands wanted to build his serve and volley game. But Sands, a skeptic after two weeks of using the Prince, wanted no part of gimmick. However, Sands stuck out the four-week trial period. Needless to say the story goes, Sands stayed with prince both story goes, Sands stayed with Prince, both story goes, Sands stayed with Prince, both to his and Prince's benefit. Sands, an All American, recently placed...
...stand up and assume their duties. Around the athletic facilities, the constabulary and army were heavily concentrated. The first seats of the stands in Lenin Stadium were taken up with an unbroken oval of military personnel-the Soviets making sure that there would be no such shenanigans as Chrystie Tenner running out to embrace her husband after his decathlon win in Montreal, or the Finns getting onto the track with their flags to run with Lasse Viren, or especially the streaker who joined the closing ceremonies in Montreal...
...champions? Do sports heroes owe their success to a lifetime diet of the cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste in breakfast food and his athletic prowess...
...these cereals," said Freitas, whose prosecutor's office handles consumer fraud complaints. "That, coupled with what appears to us to be misleading ads which encourage kids to believe that a product will somehow make them champion athletes, led us to take action." Freitas' suit demanded proof that Tenner really eats the cereal and that he had done so since childhood. "I like Wheaties, and I eat them two or three times a week," retorted an indignant Tenner at a press conference organized by General Mills. "When you're a hero to young kids," he added gravely, "they...