Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assigned to one plane. It was their first flight in 6623, and they might never fly her again. The crew had been together only since mid-January, and Petersen was substituted at the last moment for the regular aircraft commander, who had developed back trouble. But no sweat, as the SAC men say. Each member of a B-52 crew is a professional, and that counts far more than sentimental attachments...
Plautus was the Neil Simon of Rome. When the tired businessman of the Eternal City trudged home from his officina on one of the seven hills in his sweat-stained toga and quaffed a quick goblet of Falernian, his wife probably said, "Carissime, in thealrum eamus...
...stuck in back of a bank of amplifiers instead of playing out front as he usually does. Even during "Jumpin Jack Flash" when Harrison has ripped off his coat and the band is playing at a lever pitch. Russell stares vacantly across the stage, hardly working up a sweat, yet creating an air of excitement with his vocal and piano work...
...MAFIA grew quickly in America, absorbing the operations of such unpaid Sicilian scouts as Al Capone or the Black Handers. There was in this country, perhaps, more impetus for violent crime than ever, given the slum conditions most recruits lived in and the sweat they would have had to muster getting out of them via normal routes. But the nationalist image they projected was merely a good business front and organizing factor. Mafia means were ugly, its ties to home Mafiosi still insoluble, and its responsibility for widespread corruption--first through cathouses and clipjoints, then through drugs--unavoidable...
...called 'Dirt-Bike' because she had a penchant for racing motorcycles in the deserts outside Phoenix on Sunday afternoon." Terry recently received word from Baseball that he and Dirt-Bike will put on ragged sweat shirts and go anywhere they want to after they go to the chapel to get married in June...