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Word: gym (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemenway Gym onlooker observed, "Paul probably has them playing chess at night...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Racquetwomen Mean Busines; Face Tufts in Today's Opener | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...economic policy will be sorely tested in coming months. Last week Carter was saying all the right things, working a strong anti-inflation pitch into all his campaign speeches on behalf of Democratic candidates. Typically, he told a friendly crowd of 3,000 in the Niles East High School gym just outside Chicago: "I have spelled out to the Congress, to the American people, indeed to the world, a commitment on my part to make sure that we get inflation under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...caterers had prepared frightening 15-foot heroes, every kind of salad and cold casserole. Grilled hot dogs and hamburgers smoked the rafters. Moving flashing black leathers, chic corduroys and boots, tight female leather pants--and some were even "punked out" in this old ratty gym...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...Elevator.........Ra---diator." The mannequins next to the stageset gazed lifelessly on a bunch of variously dissheveled rockies doing, en masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

Narcotic spaceshot put-ons in the memory of great rock'n'roll continued with "Sandman"--another song spaced into lost perception. And finally, oh finally, "Cat" Davis came jogging through the gym, stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

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