Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years Bertha Kimbrough made parade shoes and walkie-talkie packs in a factory. Before that, for 22 years, she folded sheets in a laundry. Now she diapers babies. "Gee whiz," she says, "dozens of diapers a day! Sweet potatoes for lunch! I do a lot of changes, you get dishpan hands...
...glory days, John Mulheren Jr. was one of Wall Street's most eccentric and puzzling figures. The 38-year-old investment whiz, who headed his own arbitrage firm, reportedly earned up to $25 million a year but sometimes wore leather pants and hockey jerseys to the office. His acquaintances ranged from former Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to Rock Star Bruce Springsteen, who lives near Mulheren in Rumson, N.J. All along, though, there were, inevitable questions about Mulheren's success. As a risk arbitrager who speculated in volatile takeover stocks, he was a member...
...accident that the two sit at opposite ends of any platform; any closer, and the friction could set the place on fire. When Bush lapses into his gee-whiz optimism, that rosy outlook that comes from having everything dropped into his lap, Dole looks as if he wants to stuff a sock into Bush's mouth. When Dole makes one of his sardonic asides that let observers know he is above the low company he is temporarily keeping, Bush appears so offended by the impropriety of it all -- no one made sharp remarks at the Bush family dinner table -- that...
...momentary thaw (one of Calgary's snow-eating chinooks) melted the town three days before fledgling Figure Skater Robyn Perry got up on her toes to reach the Olympic cauldron. Two years short of the competitors' minimum age, the local whiz kid represented youth's considerable promise; also, bravery. A week earlier, before the thermometer shot from 11 degrees below to 45 degrees and back to 21 degrees again, the Olympic torch blew up spectacularly. Engineers called it a "minor malfunction," but Perry may have wished for a longer handle...
Enter Choreographer Sandra Bezic of Toronto, and it was goodbye Tech Weenie, hello Elegance Whiz. Out went the bouncy pop-rock medley. In came sobering, dramatic theme music. Also, more practice, this time emphasizing artistry. The results were startling. Last month in Denver as he collected his fourth consecutive national title, Boitano made history when eight of the nine judges awarded perfect 6.0s for composition and style on his two-minute program...