Word: whiz
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...KUMAR, 90, Indian screen legend who dazzled audiences in more than 250 films and won Indian cinema's highest honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1989; in Bombay. Kumar starred in mega-hits such as Achhut Kanya and Jewel Thief (see eulogy). DIED. DON TENNANT, 79, the creative advertising whiz who conceived Kellogg's lovable Tony the Tiger, dreamed up the Marlboro Man concept and composed such jingles as Pillsbury's Nothing says lovin' like something from the oven; in Chicago...
Harvard captain and defensive whiz Drew Gellert neutralized Dartmouth point guard Flinder Boyd today, holding him to just seven points (none in the first half). Entering today’s game, Boyd was the Big Green's leader in points (16.3) and assists (4.3). He was also coming off a career-high 24-point performance against Boston University last Wednesday...
...Violin is not something I have a unique talent for,” said viola whiz Sarah C. Darling, probably lying...
...Warshall, math whiz, played the part, teaching everyone a math major numbers game called Nim and then demolishing FM associate ed Antoinette C. Nwandu one-on-one in a Nim match. “You lost as soon as you made the first move, actually,” he shouted to general but slightly uneasy laughter...
...party has had to make many changes. De Klerk resigned from the post-apartheid government and the party because, he said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with. His proposal of marriage to the A.N.C. could...