Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your legs turn to rubber; the distance between you and second base looks so long you want to call a cab," said St. Louis Cardinals Leftfielder Lou Brock, recalling his feelings during his last year...
...Former Phys Ed Teacher Kenneth Musko, who developed the program: "Some of them do panic, but you'd be surprised how most of them cope with new situations that normally would terrify them." A few of the 52 stress activities seem particularly dangerous: riding through rapids on a rubber raft, rock climbing and "parasailing" (hanging from a parachute while being towed by a truck). One prosaic activity-incarceration at a nearby jail or detention center-is supposed to show the students the life they can expect if they flunk out of the program. There they are given a chance...
...addition to 44 minutes in penalties for both teams, Harvard had the misfortune of running into Garbage Night in Ithaca, as the loyal but degenerate Cornell faithful continually showered the ice with raw eggs, dead fish, and rubber chickens. But then again, that's the only fun the action-starved hotel management majors ever have...
Boeing still refuses to confirm the plan, but it makes sense. By offering a "rubber" airplane that can be all things to all customers, the company can hope to get enough orders to start building this summer for delivery...
...propaganda war was just as intense. Phnom-Penh accused its neighbors in Viet Nam of destroying Cambodian rubber plantations, burning forests, seizing cattle and poultry, even "raping and killing our women in crueler manner than the Thieu-Ky and South Korean mercenary troops of the past." Hanoi charged that Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas had made incursions into Viet Nam and had looted and sacked its pagodas, schools and hospitals. Far worse, it accused the guerrillas of "raping, tearing fetuses from mothers' wombs, disemboweling adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands...