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THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING |
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Hope there's enough gravy for this bicontinental nation |
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"The Great One", this record-setting center became coach of the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes in 2005 |
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Mesothelioma is a rare cancer strongly linked to long-term exposure to this fibrous mineral |
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"Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird..." |
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In 1931 Pangborn & Herndon landed a Bellanca CH-200 at Wenatchee, Wash., ending the first nonstop flight across this |
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This soft, furry rodent seen here has become an increasingly popular house pet |
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Before the euro, this country used the escudo |
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This "large" pool hustler wanted his epitaph to be "Beat everybody living on Earth. Now, St. Peter, rack 'em up" |
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The name of this elastic synthetic fiber is an anagram of "expands" |
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The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!" |
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Airsick but intact, in 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin became the first aeronaut to make one of these descents |
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It's the cherry of choice for garnishing a cocktail |
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It can get cold in this country, around 40 degrees in July in Puerto Montt |
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The USA's top amateur athlete in 1930, this golfer retired & helped design the Augusta National Golf Course |
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DuPont coined this term but chose not to trademark it so it could enter the lexicon as a synonym for "stockings" |
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In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this |
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This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933 |
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Add a "y" to a common drapery fabric & you'll get this word meaning cheap or gaudy |
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Don't get angry identifying this nation |
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This catcher retired at the end of '63, managed the Yankees to a pennant in '64 & played 4 games for the Mets in '65 |
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The soft white fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family |
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"I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call" this |
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Probably the first emergency use of this device was on January 15, 1878 to alert doctors to a train wreck |
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Seen here is a display of these dolls made by the Navajo |
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Put on your outerwear when visiting this country |
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1974's top money-winning horse was named for this U.S.-born woman who won 157 tennis singles titles |
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Before becoming a successful poet, Robert Burns worked in the linen industry as a dresser of this plant fiber |
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"When I was one and twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not'" this "'away'" |
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In 1824 this first foreigner to address a joint session of Congress congratulated the U.S. on its growth |
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In 1982 he choreographed his final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky's "Variations for Orchestra" |
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