Word: tipoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally arcane message; Paul is dressed in black, the others in white; an inside picture shows Paul as a soldier above a sign reading "I Was You"; the back cover shows him wearing a black flower-the other three have red ones-alongside a funeral wreath. For a final tipoff, Gibb recalled a McCartney look-alike contest held two years ago. The winner was never announced, said the disk jockey, because he filled Paul's slot. Nonsense, answered a Beatle flack: "I haven't seen him for a few weeks, but I know he's there...
Strong Right Hand. The tipoff, Reston says, came last December when he made Rosenthal associate managing editor with license to ride herd on the "bullpen"-the traditionally sacrosanct bank of rewrite editors. Finally, the appointment of able, amiable Seymour Topping, 47, as assistant managing editor gives his good friend Rosenthal a strong right hand. "Nearly two years ago," Sulzberger summed up, "we began seriously to plan the transition to the next generation . . . That mission has been accomplished...
Perhaps the tipoff came in the third period. A small rabbit ran across the field. A dog took chase and seemed to have the small creature in its mouth when the rabbit ran off again and the dog couldn't catch...
...more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
Tasteless Tipoff. Dysautonomia was not recognized as a separate disease entity until 1949, when Dr. Conrad M. Riley described several New York City victims and it was hard to distinguish from other inherited defects. Then, at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Dancis and Dr. Alfred Smith found that dysautonomia had one unique feature: its victims lacked taste buds in the front and, in most cases, in the back of the tongue as well. This defect in taste buds signals defects in other parts of the nervous system...