Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen herself was immune from her husband's restless energy. "I think Prince Philip is mad," she once exclaimed to a palace servant, as her husband, bored stiff with a moment of inactivity, darted out of the palace door in a cocoon of sweaters, to "work up a sweat." During their marriage, Elizabeth has succeeded to some extent in calming her impetuous husband, restraining his often explosive impatience ("Philip," she is often heard to remonstrate, "don't get so annoyed!") and curbing his quarterdeck vocabulary. By way of return, Philip himself can be credited for the fact that...
...clearly come," said New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges, the Mr. Conservative of the U.S. Senate, "to be less concerned with the depth of pile on the new broadloom rug or the height of the tail fin on the new car and to be more prepared to shed blood, sweat and tears." It was true, as some scientists said, that the U.S., with an all-out effort, probably could have fired its own satellite by now. (Last week Project Vanguard put its 72-ft. TV2 launching rocket-see cut-through the third in a series of seven tests.) Contrariwise...
...year in jail. The government prosecutor began his case by reading excerpts from Djilas' book. Sample: "the totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class [i.e., the ruling Communist oligarchy] which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." Snapped Djilas: "I wrote the truth, from the first word to the last." The judges ordered the press and public removed from the courtroom. Warned Defendant Djilas: "If the proceedings of this trial are held in secrecy, and if the public and press are excluded...
...girl or a god. If I am evil, I want you to feel like killing me." But when asked by eager Westerners about the "spirituality" of Indian dancing, Shanta Rao replies, her well-trained eyes twinkling: "I am bereft of spirituality. I only know work and sweat...
...They can have those guys," he said with some feeling. "They'll have to sweat to beat this team of ours...