Word: wisher
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Shapp's technique is to shake with his full hand and to bear down with his thumb on the well-wisher's muscle, and then "even a steel-worker couldn...
...pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop if you get sick...
Anna once left a letter on her husband's desk telling him his wife had taken a lover, and signed it "a well-wisher." Dostoevsky almost choked when he read it. She explained that it was a "practical joke" to test his trust in her, and the familiar scene re-enacted itself: a humiliating appeal for her pardon, her acceptance of his apologies, and a blissful reunion...
...KISSINGER-ISRAEL IS NOT FOR SALE. Kissinger studiously ignored the aerial lobbying, hoping it would go away, and it did. Then the stadium announcer came on the loudspeaker to boom out a hearty welcome to "Dr. Harry Kissinger." (This was not Kissinger's only such difficulty: one well-wisher hailed him as "the best Defense Secretary we've ever...
...many factors, two in particular: the degree of trust that exists between President and Vice President and Rocky's ability to subordinate himself to Gerald Ford. Beyond question he has the potential to be the most important Vice President in modern times. "How does it feel?" a well-wisher at Bar Harbor, Me., asked him last week. "Like Alice in Wonderland," replied Rockefeller. That described, perhaps more accurately than he intended, the wondrously ambiguous potential...