Word: dressers
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Masterson's namesake of television is William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. The original Bat Masterson was a frontier lawman fabled for his panache as a dresser and highstakes gambler. Born in Iroquois County, Ill. in 1853, Masterson became deputy sheriff of notorious Dodge City, followed the gold rush prospectors to Deadwood, S.D., and then went to enforce the law at aptly named Tombstone, Ariz. at the behest of Marshall Wyatt Earp. Masterson closed out his career as a sportswriter for the New York Telegraph...
...official Soviet news agency. At the same time, he said that he was making all U.S. exports of oil technology to the Soviets subject to Government license. That was a clear warning that within the next few weeks he might ban the $144 million sale to Russia by Dresser Industries of a plant to produce advanced oil-drilling equipment...
...inclination toward secrecy is not. Silver-haired and elegant, Steptoe is a pioneer in the use of laparoscopy, a technique for exploring the abdomen and observing the reproductive tract by means of a long, thin telescope equipped with a fiber optics light. He is also an impeccable dresser, enjoys watching cricket and is a fine organist. In the words of a colleague, he is "a man of character and determination who if someone is speaking nonsense is perfectly willing to say so." His partner Edwards, the father of five daughters, is no less accomplished in his own field, the physiology...
...Alba, one of the world's wealthiest and most titled women (47 titles in all), who once trained as a bullfighter; and Jesús Aguirré y Ortiz de Zarate, 44. the government's director of music, a former Roman Catholic priest known as an elegant dresser and a respected European intellectual; she for the second time, he for the first; in a quiet ceremony at the duchess's palace in Madrid...
...Park deal explains why Hundley, 52, a gregarious Irishman with a Flatbush accent, is beginning to rival Edward Bennett Williams as the capital's top criminal defense attorney. A spiffy dresser who favors loud sports coats, Hundley is on good terms with the Washington press corps. He also can draw on invaluable friendships and expertise accumulated during 16 years as a Justice Department lawyer. His contacts can help him tell where an inquiry is heading, and his experience and instincts help him to detect when a prosecutor is bluffing...