Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working for a beer distributor this summer, I was among people who load and unload trucks ten to twelve hours a day. They are the strongest and fittest individuals I have ever known. The true Spartans are not prancing around in designer tights or contorting themselves on weight machines. They are using their muscles to make a living...
...eighth inning, the Dodgers left the bases loaded. Sax singled with one out and went to third when Baker looped a single out to right field, after a Bill Russell popout. But after Pedro Guerrero walked to load the bases, Phillie reliever Al Holland came in to take over for Carlton and got Marshall to fly to right field to end the inning...
This year President Hoover did not wait until late autumn before preparing for a hard winter. In June he inaugurated his moratorium plan as a world business stimulant. This he followed up by requesting all Community Chests, through their national organization, to survey joblessness, determine well in advance the "load of distress" they would have to meet. As before, he summoned Big Business to the White House for advice and comfort. Said he reassuringly, "The problem of Unemployment and Relief, whatever it may be, will be met." Before him loomed the A. F. of L.'s prediction...
Because when the Crimson defense took the field, nearly half its starters were watching from the sidelines, casualties of past conflicts. So it was up to the now-active reserves and the healthy offense to carry the load...
...addition, Miller has always taught a full load, and, he says, "my scholarly output is more extensive than that of several other professors here. If there's any shortfall," he adds, "it's that I'm not as involved with faculty meetings. But that has nothing to do with TV. I've been teaching for 21 years and listening to discussions about classroom evaluations gets boring. They're people who say I should be writing footnotes. Well, I've written footnotes for 20 years...