Search Details

Word: wrestlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...crew staked out the portals of the Beverly Hills Hotel as the visiting Jacques Chirac, the former French Premier and still well-known mayor of Paris, strode inside, trailing limousines and entourage. The TV crew failed to budge. Turns out it was there to cover a more important celebrity, wrestler Hulk Hogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...really care if someone's gay," wrestler Scott Beck says. "We make 'fag' jokes and stuff, but it isn't derogatory against gays. We make fun of our own sexualities...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Perceptions of Homophobia in Athletics | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

Maybe John Wheelwright should be in Stockholm," says John Irving, the former college wrestler who pinned the nation's attention in 1978 with The World According to Garp. Maybe, but Toronto turned out to be the perfect place. There one can be away but not away, close to home but not at home. The clean, well-lighted city on Lake Ontario is also where Irving, 47, met his second wife, literary agent Janet Turnbull. Irving and Turnbull were married in 1987, and maintain an apartment in Toronto's Forest Hill section. The author spends about a week each month north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doing Things His Way | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...people," Konovalchik confesses. "I could beat a good wrestler, 3-2, and a not-so-good wrestler, 3-0, just because my style is very low scoring...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Switching From the Gridiron to the Mats | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...Konovalchik credits the team itself for supporting him both as a wrestler and as a friend...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Switching From the Gridiron to the Mats | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | Next