Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Motivated. At Nottingham, that was practically lilliputian compared to most of the competition. The winning East Germans weighed in at an average of 20 lbs. heavier, but the Americans managed to outstroke eight other muscular boats with a combination of will and Parker's smooth technique. "I'd have to say these girls are among the most motivated athletes I have ever met," said the coach. They were also the first Parker crew ever to race with red roses tied to their shoelaces...
Died. James Chapin, 88, American painter; of an apparent heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper...
...muscular 6 ft., 190 Ibs., Washington whips his 34-oz. bat across the plate with a fluid, level swing, rifling his line drives in all directions. He has startling speed (32 stolen bases so far this year...
...Centurion tank." As the story begins, she is tolerating a routine of more-or-less intermittent rape; soon she is submitting a bit more cheerfully to one of her husband's students, Sam; by the end of the book she has left both of them in favor of a muscular blond Teuton who offers her what is evidently meant to be fulfillment...
Died. Ezzard Charles, 54, hard-luck heavyweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951; after a seven-year bout with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative muscular disease; in Chicago. A superb tactician, Charles took the heavyweight crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in 1949, but even then he faced an uphill battle for popularity. It became steeper when he ended a comeback try, outpointing the aging Joe Louis in 15 rounds in 1950. Knocked out a year later by Walcott, Charles made several comeback attempts before slipping into obscurity and penury...