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...movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city. To help whip her charges into shape, she recruits a shy, oversize over achiever and A student, played by Thacker. The 6-ft. 5-in., 410-lb. thespian tried not to be thrown by his lines but had no trouble throwing around the 5-ft. 6-in., 117-lb. Hawn. "She's a whole lot easier to lift than some of those 300-lb. wrestlers," he says. Now put the coach down gently, please...
...grueling 1 1/2-hour workout designed to strengthen his lower and middle back after injuries suffered last summer when his vehicle slammed into a wall at 185 m.p.h. in the Poconos. The punishing session included 20 minutes of fast pedaling on an exercise cycle, 60 sit-ups with a 20-lb. dumbbell across his chest, some stretching, alternate elbow-to-knee and leg raises, and lifting weights. "I don't come here for the body building, I come here for the fun," Sullivan joked. But Isaacson did not let up on the pressure as he and Sullivan went on to more...
...could hold up only his modest share. At lunch, if Theismann sat at one empty table and John Riggins at another, the fullback's would fill up but the quarterback's would not until Kicker Mark Moseley kindly joined his holder, and gentle Dave Butz did his 300-lb. best to take up the rest of the space...
...torch has beckoned for nearly a century as a symbol of hope for people everywhere. But by the time it was taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois...
...they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway. "His comment reached the local Red River Valley Potato Growers Association, which decided to prove the catcher-manager and new Houston Astros coach wrong by trucking 46 50-lb. boxes to his door. Berra's not telling, but what deliveryman could have resisted shouting, "Hey, Yogi, this spud...