Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naval pilot Garn flew transport missions in Viet Nam. All told, he has logged some 10,000 hours of flying time--more than any of NASA's 90 active astronauts except Air Force Colonel Joseph Engle. Garn is also in superb physical condition; he carries a muscular 170 lbs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame and has a resting pulse rate...
...character he was a cripple, and in another, bitter and troubled and suicidal. The Deer Hunter ended with an elegiac singing of God Bless America in a blue-collar bar in Pennsylvania. In today's story lines, the Viet Nam vet tends to be a self-reliant hero, muscular and handsome--men like Tom Selleck in TV's Magnum, P.I., or the cartooned heroes of The A-Team...
Every Labor Day the demigod of bad taste, Jerry Lewis, holds his famous telethon for muscular dystrophy. Every year this mawkish tribute to human misery makes money. But though Lewis is cheesy, he is still trying to reach some lowest common denominator of kindness. Without a reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem...
...interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...
...shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole. "It's so mangled, you can't tell...