Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's performances this season, women's cross country coach JOHN BABINGTON competed in the Heartbreak 10 kilometer Classic last Sunday and finished 82nd in a field of more than 3000 runners. Babington's time of 35 minutes was his best in a number of years... Because runners burn off so many calories when they put in their numerous miles of training, they are able to maintain lithe bodies while eating vast quantities of food. They demonstrated this exceptional ability last weekend when they descended upon senior MARY HERLIHY's house in Worcester after the Eastern Championships, and indulged...
...million Americans who would survive beyond the shelter period, 34 million will be severely injured, and for them, "the single most important threat to life, outside of burn and blast injuries, will be infection," Abrams said...
...England fiddle contests, especially the big celebration held each July at Craftsbury, Vt. This year a crowd of some 25,000 people-an alarming mob for Vermont-swarmed over the town common on the day of the contest, stayed all night and broke up outhouses to burn in campfires. An abundant young woman wearing bib overalls and nothing else, as some accounts have it, got up on the bandstand at Craftsbury and danced. The opinion in Rutland is that she was a hippie. The voters of Craftsbury decided to cancel the affair next year, though it could be brought back...
...detective story "respectable and even dignified." It grew so respectable that Chandler could laugh when S. J. Perelman parodied Marlowe's hard-boiled approach in "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer": "Her eyes narrowed. I shifted my 200 Ibs. slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down." He combats a compulsion for the bottle, wrangles with Alfred Hitchcock over the script of Strangers on a Train ("If you wanted something written in skim milk, why on earth did you bother to come to me?"), watches Cissy die by agonizing degrees, attempts suicide, and each time revives...
...success has become Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. Fully 16% of patients tightening up their features with surgery are men, who once confined their transformations to hair transplants (still an $11 million business). The number of men seeking cosmetic surgery, as opposed to plastic surgery performed on burn and accident victims, is expected to triple within five years, and the number of women may double...