Word: haying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down to 208 by fight time"), he was running four miles a day (one of them backward), boxing as many as nine rounds in an afternoon, studying movies of Listen in action, hitting the hay precisely at 9 each night...
...tall, handsome Negro who had 1) a bruised hip, 2) a swollen ankle, 3) a sore arm, and 4) only two days of rest. In other words, Gibson was practically in the pink. "He was born sick," recalls his mother, "and he got sicker. He had rickets, hay fever, asthma, pneumonia and a rheumatic heart. I hardly let him out of the house until he was four years...
...always, somebody tried to make political hay out of all the fun and games. Just before the balloons went up, North Korea and Indonesia angrily withdrew when the Olympic Committee refused to lift its ban on athletes who had competed in President Sukarno's blacklisted Games of the New Emerging Forces last year. But they were hardly missed among the 7,000 sturdy youngsters competing for 499 gold, silver and bronze medals in 20 sports...
About 25% of Central's graduates go on to college, compared to 5% in Detroit's other predominantly Negro high schools. In the last two years the city produced three John Hay Fellows, and two (one white and one Negro) were Central seniors. Yet it remains a constant struggle to preserve Central's excellence in a ghetto. Says Lewis, now on leave with the U.S. Labor Department as a consultant on youth programs: "One of the great difficulties in education is our underestimating the culturally disadvantaged kid. He remains so only as long as we allow...
...need to be happy," Claudia murmurs at him seductively, "is hay." But Cartouche (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is not convinced. He is obviously fond of hay, but he is also fond of lettuce. In a series of dramatic robberies he acquires so much of it that he becomes a power in the kingdom: a state within a state, a law without the law. At his command men kneel and women lie down. "Paris is mine!" he cries...