Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the British raj, civil servants used to flee from the hot plains to the summer capital in the cool hill town of Simla. But Indian civil servants, afraid of the charge that they are unwilling to put up with what the voters must, have to sweat it out in dusty New Delhi...
...dollar a day, and you begin to see him without too much imagination; a dollar a day and you have bought your way into the conspiracy against him. But then, you wouldn't know about that. In your Bermuda shorts and crewneck sweater, your sweat socks and white tennis shoes and Jones Beach...
Though it summons up the fictional nightmares of a Kafka or a Koestler, this episode is a matter of cold-sweat fact. It was the first session in an ordeal by torture undergone by French Communist Journalist Henri Alleg, 37, at an "interrogation" center at El Biar, in suburban Algiers, during June and July 1957. His torturers: paratroopers of the French army's 10th Division-later rebels against the Republic-to whom the use of torture has apparently come to be regarded as a "necessary" weapon against the Algerian nationalists...
...space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will be filtered, probably through lithium hydride, to remove carbon dioxide and excess water vapor from breath and sweat. It will also be cooled and deodorized...
...More than 2,230,000 disabled Americans, recovering from disease or accidents, sorely need its help in getting back to life. Most in need: paraplegics (both legs disabled), quadriplegics (both arms and legs) and hemiplegics (one side of the body). For them, "rehab" is a stirring technique of hope, sweat and moral grit-and for the majority, it has worked...