Word: lat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compulsories--they have to show each part, and so there are 15 calves bulging out at the crowd, 15 buttocks, now 15 backs, and now 15 chests. And then there is free posing; the boys move through routines they have choreographed, practiced, jealously guarded. There's the double-lat spread, lats being back muscles--from a wide V from your waist to your shoulders. There's the double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your...
...doctrinaire Pope, zealously condemning artificial birth control in a nation with one of the most rapidly growing populations on earth. And he was the pastoral Pope, fondly kissing each member of a delegation of deaf-mutes, or impishly chiding singers who struggled through a rendition of the song Sto Lat (100 Years) in Polish. "The melody is good," he laughed, "the words...
...hero. Wherever he walked across the idle yard, workers would break into spontaneous applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed the flower-covered main gate to deliver news of the strike, the crowd would cheer and break into the Polish song Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years...
...marzipan coats of arms, and all topped by a milk chocolate model of Christ the King. Blowing out the single candle, John Paul ordered the cake distributed to orphans. He sipped boiling-hot tea and listened delightedly to an Italian choir boom out a traditional Polish birthday song, "Sto lat lat, niechaj zyje nan [100 years, 100 years, stay with...