Word: stupors
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...them knew a runner who got so nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden's famed miler, Lennart Strand, gets absentminded; he recently went out for a race without his running shirt...
Star of the walkaway victory was Backyard Stupor, who reeled off gains of 45 and 65 yards to tally twice for the Plympton marauders. Behind good blocking and spirited team play, run after run crossed the platter before the Dutch Tile merchants could organize their defense. Only Minus Goodenough failed to score for the journalists in the free-for-all hitting contest...
...home away from home. In Pegler's eyes, it is "a combination dance hall, vaudeville house, nightclub and rat race for disorderly elements. . . . We who rent the rooms . . . have been imposed upon grievously ... to accommodate . . . casuals off the streets who come to dance, drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining...
...first big post-V-E day demonstration anywhere in Germany was a hint of what might be in store as the conquered came out of the stupor of defeat...
...without warmth, rather as though they had just bumped into each other on a sidewalk." But there was no escape. So for the first time ever, Susan told somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives...