Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite their air-conditioned offices and silk suits, the executives of the nation's three television networks have good reason to sweat this summer. Never before have program sales for the fall and winter season fallen so far behind schedule. At the end of last week the three networks moodily reported that a total of 16¼ hours of their prime evening time-the equivalent of five full evenings' programing for one network-was still up for sale. Value: some $65 million...
...problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder of the Palace of the Dawn reported that each V-shaped pillar "took two weeks to frame and pour, another two weeks to face with small stone squares as specified." But, he added: "It turned out very pretty...
...told the Army's Kemper that the U.S. was 1) demanding his men's release but was 2) refusing to pay the ransom of recognizing the Red satellite, Major Kemper grinned. "That's enough for us," he said. "You can tell them that we'll sweat it out as long as it takes...
There were young men in cotton cord suits, belt-buckled and buttoned and pale blue starched; there were sweat-shirt and tennis-shoe esthetes and the wearily omniscient...
Portia stumbled out of the doorway and riverward with a shudder. Through the crowd of tennis racquets. sweat socks, low leers and pared fingernails, she plowed to the Charles. And, stepping lightly to avoid the couples seeking those several stolen seconds, she advanced to the banks and squatted to reflect on the floating refuge and the distant sails...