Word: overweightness
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...reported for work this spring. "My job is to get togetherness on this ball club," he announced. "If these guys don't hustle, they're in trouble." Williams fined Slugger Conigliaro $1,000 for missing a bed check. He benched Third Baseman Joe Foy for being overweight, First Baseman Scott for striking out too often. By last week he seemed satisfied that his Sox had caught the proper spirit. "This," he said, "is as loosey-goosey as any team I've ever seen." Relief Pitcher Dan Osinski supplied the translation: "When we come into a game...
...Dick Williams, the new Boston manager, to turn these potentially good players into a cohesive unit. Boston has long had the reputation as an undisciplined, live-it-up team, and has been a graveyard for managers. When Williams came on-to the scene, he laid down the law: no overweight players, no sore-armed pitchers, no lazy self-centered attitudes. He showed he meant business by benching his good players when they started to lapse back into their old habits...
...years, most of the men in the pilot study lived on diets that either were low in fat, or substituted polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats wherever possible. Most started out overweight and with high blood-cholesterol levels. By adhering to the diets, despite the inconveniences and deprivations involved, most lost weight and reduced their cholesterol levels. Many also cut down on their smoking or quit altogether. Only half as many suffered heart attacks as among nondieting men of the same...
From the start, their mother recalled, the personalities of the nonidentical twins "had always been different." Mary was overweight, easygoing and carefree; Margaret was thin, high-strung, and always worried about health and finances. They earned their first money at 16 doing a vaudeville song-and-dance act in the U.S. and later in Europe. After a series of jobs in circuses, they retired to open a gift shop in their home town of Holyoke, Mass. When it closed in 1949, they lived in near-seclusion until their deaths...
Rick Sterne, Jose Gonzales, and Matt Hall cut down their opposition at second through fourth matches, 3-0. Harvard's Sterne met Peter Martin's older and heavier brother Kerry at number two. The Crimson's lefty used the corners and out-ran the overweight Canadian...