Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordeal can be excruciating. Early in the process, which can take a week or ten days, the addict's eyes water and his nose runs while sweat pours from his body. By the third day, he is likely to be wracked by severe intestinal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and nerve spasms. Goose bumps cover his body; they make his skin resemble that of a plucked fowl and give the process its name in the U.S. Cold turkey is rarely fatal-the Japanese claim 100% survival for those treated in hospitals-but the urge to commit suicide can be strong...
...agency has double checked the company's TV experiment. Moreover, some lie detector experts caution that the weakness of the stress evaluator may lie in its dependence on a single measure of bodily function (the polygraph, or conventional lie detector, records several: pulse rate, blood pressure, respiration and sweat-gland activity). Besides, experts agree that although both the old and new devices can spot stress, neither can prove absolutely that the stress results from lying. The most serious objection to the P.S.E. is ethical. As the company itself suggests, the machine can be used covertly, thus invading the privacy...
...week from Saturday, nine men from Yale will row quietly to the starting line on the Thames River in New London. If all goes as it has for the past nine years, they will hand over their sweat-soaked shirts to their Harvard counterparts 20 minutes later, and ask themselves the same question...
...aware all this was allecting me. With an appeased stomach, a regular salary, and work that is pleasant and socially useful, one doesn't sweat it so much. A lot of things can wait--including the revolution. I still wanted it, but with less subjective urgency maybe...
...Flashman tosses off a nice line about fooling some of the people all of the time), and a brief term of actual enslavement. "By the time you laboured in the sun a spell, you brown up pretty good, I reckon," says the plantation owner. Thereafter Flashy manages a cold-sweat crossing of the Ohio River on-what else?-ice floes, and demonstrates (again and again) his unusual if limited talents ("I doubt if there's a man living who can move faster with his pants around his ankles than...