Word: wicked
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When the USIA's director Charles Wick, a buddy of Reagan's, got to Geneva, the Los Angeles Times's talented Washington bureau chief Jack Nelson asked him why U.S. Government spokesmen were just arriving when the Soviets had been putting out propaganda for days. Answered Wick: "You were here, Jack, that's all we need." Indeed, Nelson and his thousands of other colleagues in the free press were dispelling hogwash on all sides the moment they arrived in the old city...
Over Easter weekend the team sailed in two one-day regattas at home—the Emily Wick Trophy on March 26 and, on the subsequent day, the Sloop Shrew Trophy...
...team struggled, finishing eighth of nine teams in the Emily Wick and seventh of seven in the Sloop Shrew...
...face in late-night TV speaks with a Scottish brogue. CRAIG FERGUSON, best known to American audiences as The Drew Carey Show's insufferable boss Mr. Wick, takes the reins of CBS's Late Late Show in January, which another Craig--Kilborn in this case--dropped over the summer. (Easier to remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek...
...though the briskness of the trade in antique opium pipes suggests those laws aren't being rigidly enforced. Opium lamps, however, are far more likely to clear customs. They are smaller than oil lamps used for lighting, and an opium lamp never has a mechanical wheel to advance the wick?this was done by hand with a pair of tweezers. It is unusual to find an opium lamp that has its original glass funnel intact. Most have been fitted with replacements made from tea glasses or even liquor bottles. If an opium lamp sports a glass funnel that looks like...