Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago. Even now, as fresh material attaches itself to the plates, the continents are being pushed apart at a barely perceptible rate of an inch or less a year. Project FAMOUS should not only provide further understanding of this sea-floor spreading, as it is called, but also shed new light on associated geological events along the ridge...
...Boston, Los Angeles, and they been pickin' up real great in the last couple of years. These toys are made by authentic local Blue Ridge people, entirely in the home. There isn't no factory. They can make most of em with just a pocket knife, in a little shed beside the house or just inside." Are they packaged at home too, or in a central place? "Well, no, we got a little place near Beach Creek, a central place where they're packaged." And do the people gather the materials or what? "Well they either gather...
...Israel, after a one-hour flight from Alexandria, Premier Golda Meir insisted on meeting Nancy Kissinger before any official business in order to present her own wedding gift: two ancient Roman vases, one of which was a "tear cup" in which were supposedly collected the tears shed by brides over traveling husbands...
Puffing through a park or panting along a highway, joggers are unquestionably helping their hearts. But are they shedding poundage as well? No, say three U.S. Air Force researchers in the A.M.A. Journal: exercise alone can't do it. A runner of medium weight who wishes to shed a pound of fat on a one-shot basis must expend 3,500 calories, which means that he must run for well over an hour...
...biggest problem facing the oarsmen is weight. The crew had to lose an average of 18 pounds per man for the boat to average the required 150 pounds. Number four Timmins had to shed 28 pounds to reach his assigned weight...