Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-ring flag was passed from Los Angeles to another neutral location, Seoul, Korea, where doom is expected again in four years, and the athletes will probably come through once more. The XXIII Olympiad was handsome and bright, not completely smog-free but, as British Runner Steve Cram said, "You should see it where I live," just outside Newcastle. Bringing a world of people to Los Angeles did seem a little like fetching coals to his neighborhood, but the capacities of the freeways were not overloaded. The capacities of the citizens were overlooked...
...Journal is deliberately dull to look at, especially on its tombstone-like front page. Photographs appear only in advertisements, and illustration is limited to a handful of line drawings. The emphasis on copy allows the paper to cram its coverage and extensive stock and bond tables into about 22 pages of news space. Says Kann: "We recognize that the paper should not grow too big-it would lose its convenience and utility...
Editors say they're forced to cram for exams and resort to prepared course outlines, but few complain that their grades suffer significantly. Many comment that skills they develop at the Review improve their academic performance...
...particularly concerned about the quantitative lead the Sovi et Union holds in manpower with its 3.7 million men, in contrast to 2.1 million for the U.S. The Soviet conscription system is indeed impressive. On a single day every spring and autumn, about half a million 18-year-old males cram into flag-bedecked train stations across the Soviet Union as they set off to begin mandatory military service. Except for those who have been selected for three-year stints in the navy and border guard, the new draftees will begin two years of rigorous training, living in spartan barracks...
DISNEY IS NOT a paradigm of cool. Not that nature movies generally are, but most viewers will without a doubt recall with a wince those semi-documentaries which manage to cram the grand expanses of nature into the vacuum tube confines of the American psyche with a liberal lubricaiton of cuteness. You know, the bear cubs clumsily gamboling about, choreographed to silly bassoon music and chortling narration ("Well, I guess our little friends got more than they bargained for when they tried to get into that beehive...