Word: yank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days that an outranked American has ousted a favored German, after Lori McNeil beat Steffi Graf yesterday in the first round. Taking advantage of the unpredictable grass courts and his opponent's bad temper, Shelton consistently outplayed and outclassed Stich. Shelton says that he was inspired by his fellow Yank's earlier win, and hopes that their achievements as African-American tennis players will encourage black youngsters to take up the sport...
...hours a day he would stay out there. "We had lights..my parents would yank me in for dinner, and afterwards I would run right back out until bedtime...
Baker -- no Cooper, but a classic Yank with a long, friendly, shovel-shaped face -- begins his new assignment on Sunday with Selected Exits, a biographical tribute to Welsh author and raconteur Gwyn Thomas, starring Anthony Hopkins. Already Baker has found that the job is like sailing a ship in a very small bottle. "Most of the time you have two or 2 1/2 minutes," he says. "That's one page, double-spaced. My columns are three pages. On TV, that would be like being Hubert Humphrey -- Will this guy ever shut...
...Francisco law firm were shot by an angry client last month. Harvey Saferstein, president of the California Bar Association, pressed for a "cease-fire" on lawyer bashing, characterizing it as a form of "hate speech." At least one advertiser felt the heat and backed down. Miller Lite decided to yank an ad showing cowboys roping divorce lawyers at a rodeo. But the enmity runs deep in the culture: after Saferstein spoke out publicly against such bashing, he received a slew of derisive calls at his office, leading his partners to beef up security...
...DeGuerin told his client that the government did not have much of a case against him -- an impression the negotiators did not contradict. What they heard from the lawyer helped convince them that the Davidians wanted to come out. All the FBI needed was to open the door and yank...