Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the Providence loss the Classics have notched two no-sweat victories to raise the record to 12-3. Last Friday at the IAB the Classics sharpened their passing, played more patiently, and coasted to a 72-55 win over the Suffolk University Junior Varsity...
...With some officers, Fair's approach won plaudits. Novelist Josiah Bunting (The Lionheads), an ex-major himself, praised Fair's leathery style in a Playboy article last fall, describing the general as "an admirable soldier" who is "always in bristling motion." But other officers, whose palms sweat when Fair raked them over with abrasive questions, disliked him intensely. To some enlisted men, Fair was a bush-league General Patton...
...never got over the frustration of being outsiders looking in," writes Leona. Yet it is precisely the Schecters' visitors-to-a-strange-planet attitude that makes their book succeed. On virtually every page are anecdotes and vignettes that constitute a witty, indelible portrait of the Soviet Union. Sweat, garlic and tobacco are the "characteristic smell of Moscow." Shoppers use no checks or credit cards; only the privileged in this "classless society" use scrip to buy luxury groceries at bargain prices. Three bathers in Armenia show off portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin tattooed on their chests...
John Havens, one half of the 1-2 punch the Havens family sent to Barnaby this year, who plays in the number two position, beat his opponent without breaking a sweat...
Clearly, the Crimson has lost an alibi. Any team that can make B.C. sweat for 40 minutes should have little difficulty with most of the Ivy squads, some of whom were so bad a year ago that they would have finished in the second division of the Bristol County League...