Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overcoming the pain and difficulties is, at least for Meyer, where the gratification enters. "Cross country is such a challenge," he said. "I think it's much more demanding and intense than track, or any other sport I've ever participated...
...There's the inevitable problems of pain, hills, and the other runners that you have to face up to every time you run -- you know that you're going to have to deal with them every time you compete. How you handle them is what cross country is all about," he added...
Still, Bogart's is a disco with a difference. Like a growing number of bars and dance halls in Arizona and elsewhere in the Southwest, it invites the evening customers to mix their pleasure with a certain amount of pain on "boxing night." At 8:30 on any Tuesday, the M.C. at Bogart's can be found, microphone in hand, asking for help. What he needs are more volunteer boxers. "O.K., folks. We've got six fighters signed up. If you've got any friends, give them a call and get them down here." Seated just...
...blue-eyed stare suddenly brings a hush over the audience. But after a second the boy regains his senses and goes on the attack. He lands a right jab squarely on Dan's nose; Dan reels and then stands perfectly still. In a moment, his face contorts in pain, fear, shock or whatever else a child feels when he's clunked hard. As the tears begin pouring, his father Dan Sr. grabs him out of the ring and holds him. "Barbaric," mutters Craig Smith, 23, sitting at ringside. Not so, say the two boys' parents, sitting together...
...failed to notice that the heavyweight eight did work last Sunday. A fast boat should not pose any conceptual difficulties for any loyal Harvard alum, fictional or otherwise. Penultimate limon or not, that mixed eight functioned as one smooth unit of eight athletes rowing their guts out together. Determination, pain, (and possibly sheer stupidity) know no sexual boundaries. Crew may also be more egalitarian than most sports in that efficiency, technical smoothness, and mental toughness can count as much as brute strength. The men in the boat trusted and respected the ability and seriousness of the Radcliffe rowers. In this...