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...grow up. She usually returns to work not because she has to make ends meet but because she wants to live better, buy a second car, take a European vacation, or bankroll her children through college. The automation of factories has actually opened more places for her, since no brawn is needed to press a button...
...only 63 performers chosen from 7,000 who tour Russia in multiple subdivisions of the state circus. The performers are young, graceful, good-looking, and built like red bricks. Mixing biceps and ballet, with an orchestra adding swatches of Tchaikovsky and Khachaturian, their show might well have been called Brawn Lake...
Millions of peasants were herded into people's communes and hitched to plows. Peking broke up families, tried to ban money, jerry-built hundreds of "backyard" steel furnaces. The slogan was: "Communism can grow grain and make steel." Through brawn and "revolutionary romanticism" China was to turn almost overnight into an industrialized land. The Great Leap Forward was hailed as a short cut to Communism -and a slap at Moscow. Khrushchev warned that it could not be done. After a few months the experiment indeed collapsed. Gloating over the failure, Khrushchev told visiting Hubert Humphrey that...
...countenanced the erection of hermae in the palace portico, these being busts from the Praxitelean Hermes and the Apollo Belvedere, a trifling discrepancy of centuries from the Homeric period. The other was the costume of Cassandra's charioteer, Mr. John Weare, class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced...
Even without the services of injured Mike Patterson, Harvard out-played the favored Eagles in the first period of action. Playing wide open hockey, coach Cooney Weiland's icemen used brawn as much as skill to keep the puck away from the Crimson nets...