Word: flex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Final proof that this was not your day would come during the seventh-inning stretch. While everyone else stood up to flex their cramped muscles, you grabbed one of the thirty-four thousand temporarily vacated seats to rest your aching legs, and accidentally crushed a Fenway Frank--mustard and all--in the process...
...suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat and flex their knees to relieve the physical and mental strain. Scuffles and raised voices are rare, but they have happened when someone tries to jump the line. "Sometimes a lady will faint," says Bill Peters, 34, the office manager, "but in all my time here [18 months], I've seen...
With the temporary demise of Cornell hockey, a new powerhouse is beginning to flex its muscles in the East. And that team, the Vermont Catamounts, will be at Watson Rink tonight (7:30 p.m. starting time) looking to pull a major upset and knock Harvard from its unbeaten ECAC petch...
...poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without scaling down the epic. His battlefield seems bleaker-black and white rather than Pope technicolor. His protagonists are closer to Beowulf than to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The blank-verse lines may flex to a Homeric simile, but in combat they are as direct as a dagger thrust. What Fitzgerald has done is provide all that a late-20th century translator and his audience can share on the subject of war -only the most austere emotions...
...three-hour lunches, and they seemed equally tireless in keeping their identities hidden. Last week the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that overthrew the regime of Marcello Caetano last April and ended half a century of dictatorial rule in Portugal, finally decided to flex their muscles publicly. In short order, the men of A.F.M. forced the resignation of civilian Prime Minister Adeline da Palma Carlos, a moderate, and got their own man installed as his successor. They then presided over the appointment of a new military-dominated Cabinet. As one Lisbon newspaper editor observed...