Word: jog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touched down in Soviet Kazakhstan on Dec. 29. Said he: "My muscles were strong enough to support me. As far as heart palpitations, sweating, that sort of thing -- I didn't feel anything of that sort. In fact, one day after returning to earth, I went for my first jog, for about 100 meters...
Former Dodger ace Don Drysdale says batters are seeing the beanball in abundance because of their increased cockiness. After knocking a tater, hitters no longer dutifully jog around the base paths, models of humility. Instead, they stand still, in triumph, while the pitcher slumps on the mound...
Their day began with a 6 a.m. jog, followed by breakfast, interviews with the press and a book-signing appearance. By afternoon they were on Manhattan's Lower East Side to announce a major housing initiative for the poor and visit an apartment house they helped rehabilitate two summers ago. Such a hectic schedule might tax a brace of yuppies but not Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Looking refreshed and relaxed last week as they sat together in their New York City hotel suite, Jimmy, 62, and Rosalynn, 59, are clearly exhilarated by all the fanfare for their new book, Everything...
...harm in letting children play in sand as long as they kept it out of their mouths. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann sought to ease fears like those that caused almost 1,000 anxious TV viewers to call a panel of experts with such questions as whether they should jog, play tennis or walk their dogs. Said Zimmermann in a special radio and TV address: "Based on present findings, there was not and is not any danger...
...shards in this distinctive collection. The stories are all in the first person, but each one presents a new character. An afflicted 15-year-old girl becomes involved with a 27-year-old man of ambiguous sexuality; an older woman, teetering on the edge of a breakdown, decides to jog instead of swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion of rich colors but daydreams about the frail hands of her dying mother: "I traced with my finger...