Word: studded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised on the bluegrass and rich mineral water at the Tersk farm are acknowledged to be among the world's finest. U.S. Industrialist Armand Hammer and two partners in 1981 paid the Soviets $1 million for Pesniar, now an eight-year-old Arabian stallion that is standing at stud in the U.S. Said an American rancher's wife: "They're the most beautiful horses in the world...
...Geneva over arms control may be going nowhere, but the Soviet-American negotiations at Tersk were a success. On a Soviet horse farm nestled in the foothills of the northern Caucasus, 70 Western horse breeders, half of them Americans, gathered with hard dollars in hand for the annual Tersk stud Arabian horse auction. The goods for sale were definitely low technology, and détente flourished. The buyers sat in a verdant paddock and listened as an auctioneer wheedled, cajoled and otherwise tried to nudge bids upward with capitalist determination. "What's the matter, you leave your wallets...
...away at whatever optimists wander into the game. In no-limit, as one poker carnivore tells Alvarez, "the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Shooting back, in one legendary five-month game years ago between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek, came down to a five-card stud hand in which Moss, with a pair of nines, thought he had the Greek locked. Moss figured his opponent for a low pair and discounted his fifth card as no help. He bet everything he had. As Alvarez writes, "In the moments of silence after Moss pushed what remained...
...suitcases full of cash. By the time Alvarez caught up with the World Series, it had grown to a knightly joust with 75 entrants for the main event, each of whom put up $10,000 to play. The game (hold 'em, an exotic species of seven-card stud) was a freeze-out, with play continuing until one man held all the chips...
...most of all, Menenhetet's tells about sex. He was quite a stud in his time, and in the course of 700 pages we are trusted to perhaps 300 episodes of sex. Not just garden variety copulation either. The works. Even when he's a ghost he has sex. This may be indicative of life in ancient Egypt; certainly a look at the statuary of the time shows as much of an interest in sex and fertility as there was in any other historical period. Here, however, it makes for one very boring book. Certainly, there are moments when...