Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bogart Jackson had all the skills at his disposal. His muscular legs allowed him to drive with uncommon force; his cat-like reflexes and vision gave him uncanny distance judgement and an unusual capacity to escape sandtraps and rough. He had a steady putting stroke and knew the nuances of the elusive game as well as anyone on the big tour. Yet Bogart Jackson was 25 years old and still scrambling to make it, hanging around courses at dawn to finish his round before the stars started theirs. This December, he told himself, he would succeed. And by the time...
...ruddy-coated Abyssinian is a playful and spirited shorthair. It is also one of the most expensive: a pet-quality red Aby kitten can cost $800, and one promising to become a grand champion can fetch $3,000. The American Shorthair is sometimes incorrectly called the alley cat. Muscular and intelligent, plain or tabby-patterned, it is to most people the essence of the feline, a cat-cat, the kind that shows up for breakfast and moves in with the children. In the purebred version, shorthair kittens cost $300 to $500. The Egyptian Man, a fairly new breed, is extremely...
McCurdy notes that Johnson is not built like the typical tall and skinny distance runner. He is relatively muscular, making him less limber and giving a somewhat less smooth stride than most harriers...
...before Reagan the detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that previous Presidents got from stronger aides. A third difficulty is that Secretary of State Haig is more of a tactician than a strategist, and has surrounded himself with aides of like mind; they tend almost reflexively to muscular, ad hoc responses toward particular problems, frequently focusing on the shipment of arms abroad as a prime method of diplomacy. Finally, Reagan himself, lacking experience in foreign affairs and concentrating mostly on domestic problems, has failed to appreciate his aides' shortcomings...
...first death occurred on May 1, when Jaime Vaquero Garcia, 8, died in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid. His five brothers and sisters also suffered from signs and symptoms that were soon to become all too familiar-severe muscular pain, fever, skin rashes and impaired nerve function-but all of them survived...