Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applied to young Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced on his arm in felt-tip pen. His devil-may-care attitude, however, masks a troubled past. As an adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming champion with whom he would shoot...
...achieve that." A gold medal would also help the cause of female hoops in the U.S. Women's pro basketball is actually flourishing in Europe, but in America it is only so much paper, with plans for two new U.S. pro leagues: The American Basketball League will tip off in the fall under the aegis of Reebok, and the Women's National Basketball Association, an offshoot of the N.B.A., hopes to begin play in 1997, with NBC televising 10 of its games annually...
...project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...city's so far, with the potential to replicate the metaphorical gridlock on Capitol Hill with the real kind as 145 torch runners pay homage at every shrine in hopes of slighting no one. It's a touchier city than most: there are three branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college, a white college and a college for the deaf. And who would want to snub...
HAMAS Islamic terrorist group and allies tip outcome with murderous bomb campaign...