Word: spottedness
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Branson's entrepreneurial flair blossomed early, at 17, when he started a magazine called Student and brashly talked the likes of John le Carre, James Baldwin and Vanessa Redgrave into contributing articles or being interviewed. Student was short lived, largely because the young proprietor spotted, in the number of ads...
Imagine that you have a thousand miles to walk and someone keeps stealing your shoes. Imagine that you have decided to risk everything to win the woman you love and you keep stumbling over your rival, already kneeling before her, reciting the lines you had carefully rehearsed. Imagine that you...
Well, not quite. Early last week, four days after Spahr spotted it, his celestial interloper whizzed by Earth, missing the planet by 280,000 miles--a hairbreadth in astronomical terms. Perhaps a third of a mile across, it was the largest object ever observed to pass that close to Earth...
Granted, Fenway Park's seats are not La-Z-Boy cushy, and an occasional rodent may be spotted, but it is intimate in a way newer, larger parks are not, and many Boston-area fans are in no rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts. No matter...
It used to be that with the Wave and a few handshakes a President could be on his way after a fund raiser. Nixon launched the Big One, raising both arms above his head so far that his suit jacket came up to his ears. Reagan swept his hand through...