Word: roadwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Hoyte set out from the French village of Montmelian with seven companions (including a veterinary surgeon) and a 5,700-lb. female elephant named Jumbo, borrowed from the Turin zoo. In preparation for the trip, Jumbo was taken on long daily walks in hope that roadwork would condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three...
...When peace came, they cashed in on the veterans' housing boom, built an average of $6,500,000 worth of houses a year by pricing their houses about $1,000 less than their competitors. Like other big builders, they trimmed construction costs by doing their own concrete and roadwork, are always alert to save even pennies; recently they saved 45^ a house by rerouting an electrical conduit...
...mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the bloody farce. While Hurricane was hauled to the hospital to be patched up by a team of urologists, neurologists and a plastic surgeon, Patterson started work...
...high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different kind of fighting in Korea, Gene got his pro career under way in earnest. He came to New York last week, winner of 37 out of 40 fights, 20 by knockouts...
NEXT morning Dominguin was up soon after 8, to drink his coffee and read the newspaper accounts of his arrival. Then, though he hates exercise, he went out for some roadwork, to get used to the altitude. After that, he was driven to the Plaza Mexico, the world's biggest bullfight arena, which he had never seen. He stamped over the sand, looking for pitfalls, and paced off the distance from the center of the ring to the barrier. Then he went to look at the bulls, the biggest and best Mexico could provide. Someone asked...