Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good morning, ladies! And a one, and a two .. . What's that? Too tuckered out to tuck in that tummy? Can't move your feet to the pounding disco beat? Well, if Jane Fonda, Christie Brinkley, Victoria Principal and other celebrity purveyors of fat-fighting exercises haven't helped, try Debbie Reynolds. The awesomely ebullient Reynolds has put together a new video and record for fed-up flabbies. It is called Do It Debbie's Way. Says she: "I'm 51, in fairly good condition, and on the road 42 weeks a year...
...open door" policy for foreign capital and technology a few years ago, he somberly warned his people that "the penetration of bourgeois ideas is inevitable." Sure enough, leggy beauties now glide along sleek runways in Peking modeling the latest Pierre Cardin fashions. Not far away, well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin. Even in rustic glades, jeans-clad teen-agers blast out punk rock from ubiquitous cassette players. Free enterprise has also brought in its wake less innocent forms of freedom. Earlier this year, Story, a tabloid...
...people')." In this case it was Harvard's Rob Wheeler who benefited from Crowley's charitable instincts. Crowley fumbled with the puck, vainly trying to get it on the blade of his stick long enough for the Crimson left wing to steal it, dive across the UVM crease and tuck it away, giving Harvard a 4-3 victory in its home opener...
...Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U.S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
DIED. Sergei Chalibashvili, 21, Soviet diver; of heart failure, after having struck his head (incurring multiple skull fractures) on the ten-meter-high platform while attempting a 3½ reverse somersault in tuck position at the World University Games; in Edmonton, Alta. The athlete had had trouble in executing the difficult dive in practice. Anticipating tragedy, other divers along with U.S. Coach Bob Rydze could not watch his competition effort. Said Rydze in anger after the July 10 accident: "It's the coach's responsibility to make sure his divers are not attempting dives they...