Dickey tried to play down the idea that he had mastered control of his knuckleball — "Look, it's a knuckleball, and it can be fickle" — and deflected the suggestion that he was an ace, one whose sole presence could jar a team out of a funk.
Brown's friend, Michal Westrich, described Boik as a pool ace, whose main concern was making everybody laugh.
He also created Tor, a prehistoric hero, and, with Mr. Kanigher, Enemy Ace, whose antihero is a German pilot.
Faulkner is an absolute guitar ace, whose pretty harmonics and folky runs are more what you'd expect from someone twice his age.
"When I think 'warrior,' it sounds like a fighter — I am not really that," said Lee, the Texas Rangers' ace, whose team will rely on him to avoid a first-round collapse.
Over at Shea, fans are getting ready to welcome Johan Santana, their terrific new left-handed ace, whose hundred-and-thirty-seven-million-dollar contract makes him the best-paid pitcher in baseball — in one way, at least.
Over at Shea, fans are getting ready to welcome Johan Santana, their terrific new left-handed ace, whose hundred-and-thirty-seven-million-dollar contract makes him the best-paid pitcher in baseball in one way, at least.
The small drama of a bloody nose was as nothing to some of the tales: the 18-week-old baby who had had 99% of her bowel removed in order to save her life; the 15-year-old tennis ace whose heart stopped for 13 minutes, whose mum was told to kiss him goodbye, who survived; the 18-year-old whose new kidney had failed but who waited for, and received, another.
A disappointing performance from the Portuguese ace, whose only notable contribution was winning and converting a penalty to send his team 3-2 ahead.
Seminal fluid ACE, whose concentration is 50-fold more than that of ACE in blood, likely originates from epithelial cells of the epididymis, which express an abundant amount of somatic ACE [19].
