Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, industry was beginning to flex its muscles again. Businessmen have increased their bank loans by $80 million, steel production has edged up to 84.8% of capacity (about where it was in June) and textiles have picked up so fast that some rayon prices are up 10% since June...
...first time since 1937, the combined Oxford-Cambridge track team was on a mission to the U.S. The purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
...helping hands of Corwin and Welles were not proffered without a little arm-twisting from Markle. He peppered Corwin with mail, and when Corwin was in Toronto, played recorded shows for him. Corwin, enthusiastic and polite, got CBS interested in Markle, who was given a chance to flex his muscles on three Columbia Workshop dramas last summer. Then, with Corwin's backing, he joined the network...
...weeks ago, Joe's handlers, unable to find him someone to fight, got to thinking of all the unexplored territory outside the U.S. where people might pay just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...