Word: tumbler
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...former opera singer. Later on he would turn to Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler he used onstage was often tea. Booze, he knew, could batter the throat...
West, a lifelong migraine sufferer, was used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...
...beyond. His thrilling come-from-behind win at Adelboden in Switzerland marked his third giant-slalom triumph of the season and his 10th win overall in the current World Cup series. He is so far ahead of the competition that the Cup already seems to be a customized Tomba Tumbler--though the superstitious superstar is quick to reject such ideas. After Adelboden, he hedged: ``Even if the victories boost my morale, it gets tiring. I'm not sure I can keep...
...sound system, with an officer in camouflage fatigues standing at attention nearby, Mobutu shows no signs of fearing the turmoil that threatens to engulf him. "I have rendered my country and people an enormous service," he says, beckoning to a servant who rushes up with an iced Baccarat tumbler of Coca-Cola. "They owe me everything." Then why not hold elections? "I plan to. I would win them." Then he leans back in his gold thronelike chair, staring into the distant jungle. "If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure...