Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 40 candidates have answered Coach Jaakko Mikkola's summer call for track hopefuls, and practices are being held daily, even though no meets have been scheduled. These workouts, short and not too strenuous, are designed to help inexperienced newcomers and develop fresh talent while keeping the old hands in shape...
Comic Opera. In Guatemala, the 1½-year-old revolutionary government of Juan José Arévalo had fresh proof that implanting a democracy on inhospitable soil was far more complicated than toppling a dictator. Planters and merchants who resented middle-of-the-fence Arévalo's sops to labor had tried to buy up the army for a counterrevolution. The plot failed; 27 went to jail...
...term in the Senate, he was at it again. At 68 he was an ugly little figure; sometimes, as he whirled across the countryside in his sleek, grey Cadillac, he wrapped a red scarf around his big, balding head to keep hoarseness away. Each morning he put on a fresh white shirt and a red tie; each night he slept in red pajamas. He made three speeches (averaging two hours each) and smoked nine cigars...
...night stands, she sometimes traveled 500 miles with her hair in pin curls and her evening dress over her arm so it wouldn't get mussed. The trick was to arrive in a town at 7 p.m., get your dress pressed and your hair fixed, and look fresh by 9 p.m. She thinks the training was tough but good: "If you can sing on one-night stands into bad microphones to out-of-tune pianos you can sing any place...
...Fresh Beer, Stale Gags. There were bull sessions everywhere and at all hours, and 75 kegs of beer to keep them afloat. There were a few more formal meetings of minds: in Baker Rink, Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, who wrote the War Department's Smyth Report, ran a forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate...