Word: rationalize
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Sarah Caldwell was neglecting herself again. Her hair was stringy and matted, her clothes unbelievably shabby. She was keeping alive on a daily ration of one dozen hamburgers, with suitable amounts of coffee and Cokes. On nights when she worked till dawn, she would wrap herself up in her overcoat, ease her 300 Ibs. down into one of the aisles of her theater, and sleep. Her friends would find her there in the morning, vaguely punchy but ready for work...
...Jean was good enough to win the slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom at the 1962 Fédération Internationale de Ski championships in Chamonix, France. When she returned this winter as a member of the U.S. Olympic team, many European fans actually were under the impression-from her name-that she was a man. "So-bare?" they said, giving it the French treatment...
...weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...
...enough for one step, but Erhard had a further move in mind. On a quiet Sunday afternoon when, as he says, "I knew no bureaucrats would be around to stop me," he went to the local radio station and took the air with a dramatic announcement: the end of rationing. "From now on," he declared, "the only ration stamp will be the Deutsche mark...
...conservative coaches are caught up in the enthusiasm. At Columbus, Ohio, where 84,000 watched unbeaten Ohio State and unbeaten Illinois battle to a 20-20 tie, Coach Woody Hayes, the grind-'em-out granddaddy of them all, let Buckeye Quarterback Don Unverfeth throw a season's ration of passes (12). "I'm not throwing the ball just to make people happier," insisted Hayes. "I'm trying to win games. That makes them happier, usually...