Word: exhaustion
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...with cameras and monitors to record the 26 miles and 385 yds. of the marathon. The van's shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary boat, the network constructed two nearly wakeless craft: both consist of 10-ft.-high platforms mounted atop a pair of racing shells...
...every three residents, while behind-the-times New York was stuck with one for nine. In 1979 Los Angeles drivers were racking up 200 million miles a day. In 1983 the total number of registered vehicles in Los Angeles County was 5,119,194. Motoring gamely along, an exhaust-pipe taste gathering about the teeth, one is self-conscious of erring in a world of gorgeously maintained 1965 Ford Mustang convertibles...
...annals of great and horrible waiting. Citizens of the Soviet Union would think it bourgeois decadence to complain about such a trifle. The Soviets have turned waiting into a way of life. The numb wait is their negotiating style: a heavy, frozen, wordless impassivity designed to madden and exhaust the people across the table. To exist in the Soviet Union is to wait. Almost perversely, when Soviet shoppers see a line forming, they simply join it, assuming that some scarce item is about to be offered for sale. A study published by Pravda calculates that Soviet citizens waste 37 billion...
...cosmic on small evidence, to start with the general and find specifics to buttress her belief. She doesn't read very much." He speculates that her fascination with the spirit may, like her past absorption with politics and travel, turn out to be "a phase that she will exhaust, in the same way an actor exhausts a part." Says Shirley: "I have thought of that...
...weeks following the end of the war, islanders complained about the exhaust-spewing military trucks that were taking parking spaces on Ross Road, the capital's main street. Residents who had to billet the soldiers, sleeping as many as four to a room, only half jokingly expressed fears for the women. Now the troops live in three large "coastels," self-contained floating barracks, each housing up to 930 men. The facilities have mess halls, gymnasiums and a squash court; they purify their own water and generate their own electricity. Says Major General Keith Spacie, commander...