Word: lifter
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Like an opera singer straining for a high note, Mitko Grablev opened his mouth wide, but no sound came out until the 369 1/4-lb. bar he was hoisting reached shoulder level. Then the Bulgarian weight lifter shrieked and raised the bar over his head. When the buzzer sounded, he dropped the bar on the wooden deck and cast a final look of defiance down at the weights before acknowledging the cheering crowd with a wave of his fist. He had won a gold medal...
...Winning the first two [Ivy games] is key," Carney said. "It's a real spirit-lifter...
...woodcutter who lives near West Plains, Mo. He is 58 years old. He is 6 ft. 1 in. tall, a handsome man with a weathered face and a small mustache. He is in physical trim that a weight lifter would envy. Ray cuts wood every day, stacking six tons on his truck and unloading it inside one of the kilns at Craig's Industries in Mountain View, Mo., before the sun gets too high. He figures he lifts...
...feeds to his cattle. Conversation develops, and the beer remains unpoured. Are there not cows to be milked? Perhaps there is some manure to be shoveled? At last the observer gets his glass of Amber. It is red in cast, bread fresh, with the body of a weight lifter: serious beer. A glass of Gold is similarly muscular, though not so massive. Lighter, notes the visitor, "though of course" -- he spells out the word that self-respecting beer drinkers prefer not to pronounce...
...however, cannot fulfill the desires of every Harvard weight lifter. Across the river, the Indoor Track and Tennis (ITT) Center houses the training ground for most of Harvard's varsity athletes. But the facilities there cannot satisfy increasing student demand...