Word: spartanism
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...darling she proved to be. Two days later, before the 880-yd. swim, Ilsa stoked up on steak, digested some Spartan advice from Family Coach Don Talbot ("Treat the second 440 as a new race, and go for your life"), and set out for glory with deep, slow strokes and a gentle-seeming six-beat kick. While fans in the stands whooped and whistled, she flashed through the second 440 in 5:12.2, sprinted the last 55-yd. lap in 35.7 and touched out in 10:17.7. The astounding announcement: Ilsa had knocked 16.9 sec. off Lorraine's world...
...yearned for discomfort. Wintertimes, Mytton went hunting wearing as little as possible, once horrified the gamekeepers by duck hunting in the nude. He once cured himself of hiccups by putting a candle to his nightgown: "enveloped in flames," he was soon too badly burned to burp. Despite his Spartan attire, Mytton "had a hundred and fifty-two pairs of trousers," spent half a million pounds in 15 years, died of d.t.s in a debtor's prison...
...isolated life which students at Princeton must perforce lead, compounded by the austerity of football training programs, built up frustration to such a point that a sadistic release outlet had to be found. But again this excuse is hardly a valid one. Yale football players must lead the same Spartan existence for weeks on end, and yet Yale football history has known no such deed...
...postwar national election was a "stomach election"; and there seemed little if any doubt that Adenauer was going to win it (whether his party as a whole would win a majority or merely a plurality was the real question). The man most determined to erase any doubt was peppery, spartan Chancellor Adenauer himself. By motorcar and by special, five-car diesel train, Konrad Adenauer was campaigning with the verve and enthusiasm of a man half his age, and the knowledge that his age is one of the few effective arguments his opponents have against him. In Celle, citizens looked...
...behind, grinding downtown in her little black Simca, is Buffie. Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...