Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NCAA regionals last week, UCLA took three overtimes to thump Dayton's title hopes in the western half, while NC State cruised through the playoff games with little trouble and almost without breaking into a sweat...
...after day, while beads of sweat slowly formed on his great bald head, the Government's witness told an absorbing story of how big money could buy influence at the highest levels of Richard Nixon's Administration. Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey and onetime majority leader in the state senate, was testifying in a Manhattan courtroom against the men with whom he claims to have done shady business: John Mitchell, 60, the former U.S. Attorney General; and Maurice Stans, 65, the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. They...
Blacks already are benefiting somewhat from the golden bonanza. Some 350,000 black miners work from 3,000 ft. to more than 12,000 ft. underground, sweat pouring off their bodies because of high temperatures and humidity. Last April the Chamber of Mines raised their minimum wages 30%, and in December it decreed a further 10% raise...
Stylistically, the book gets off to a gaudy and disappointing start: "Like all the rest of us, T.S. Eliot was born in blood, sweat and tears; unlike most of us, he was born in St. Louis." Where the author is at the mercy of incomplete material he resorts to catchy phrases at the expense of coherence, and metaphors for the sake of metaphors. (On the subject of Pound, he gushes: "His critical tone is quite unself-conscious, at times even incautiously blurty; this tone buoys him up and carries him along swimmingly--until, late in his career, he founders...
...since no one goes to a Hasty Pudding show for the acting, its irrelevance is transparent. What the audience seems to like, and what the cast seems to sweat from most, is the choreography. The trademark of the show is its kick line, and this year's show has one, of course, dragged kicking into the middle of the second act, in no way integral to the rest of the show--a bizarre but apparently welcome intrusion that would have killed any momentum in the plot (but luckily it had none...