Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number-one singles Christina Dragomirescu still didn't get a rest. She lost to Jennifer Santrock, the eighth-ranked singles player in the nation, 6-0, 6-1, while deLone fell to Claire Evert, 6-4, 6-2, at the number-two slot...
...spent most of his youth engaged in love affairs, traveling with friends and family and writing for himself. The rest of his time he spent recuperating from the epileptic fits and venereal disease that plagued him all of his life...
...long as Americans refuse to limit their spending and borrowing in both the private and public sectors, they will weaken the economic underpinnings -- and sour the psychological atmosphere -- of the U.S. position worldwide, especially in Asia. America's indebtedness, to itself and to the rest of the world, soaks up resources that might otherwise be invested to boost productivity and exports. Thus the budget deficit exacerbates the trade deficit, which in turn hurts the dollar and provokes protectionism...
...snow cave, was by several days the first of three climbers from her expedition to reach the top last fall. (A male climber, Geoff Tabin, made it to the top just ahead of Luce.) Thus she settled what she somewhat dismissively refers to as "the American-woman-on-Eve rest thing." (Tired of hype and of fund raising, she had put $9,000 of her own money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some of the grousing from the Old Guard of male Himalayan climbers that women aren't equipped for extreme-high-altitude climbing, complaints that...
...that idea at all. For her, adventures are what happen when you make a mistake. She has been climbing, she says precisely, "for 11 1/2 years." She is a gifted rock climber. At extreme altitude, she is an aerobic marvel, renowned for climbing at unusual speed. She and the rest used bottled oxygen much of the time because of the dangers of altitude sickness. A reporter with some experience at altitude asks whether she felt sluggish and slow-thinking when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report. Not Allison; she said...