Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he found a two-year-old Ibo child cowering in some bushes, its parents lying dead near by, he personally nursed the boy back to health. After keeping some Biafran army brasshats cooling their heels outside his caravan one night, Steiner emerged soaked with sweat and water. "I have been bathing my baby," he declared deadpan. In contrast to this episode, a trembling young Arab woman whom Steiner held captive in the Sudan testified at his trial that he had snatched her baby and thrown it in a river...
...where the Bruno Sammartinos? Promoter Abe Ford's "Championship Wrestling" at the Boston Garden last Saturday night resembled nothing so much as afternoon ten at the Chilton Club. The wrestlers Ford produced were, for the most part, an unimpressive lot, and they emerged, as Pindar once remarked, "untouched with sweat on thighs or neck." (Pindar was a Greek handicapper...
...Lana also made sweaters; they were a universal fashion by the end of the '30s. Until that time, the sweater was intended almost strictly for warmth, in perfect conformity with its origins in the 19th century, when it was used by athletes intent on working up a healthy sweat. Today, after a lapse of several years, sweater fever is once again gripping the fashion world. In Manhattan, Paris, Los Angeles and London, the young are falling upon gaudily decorated knit tops like moths upon tweed. Top-ranking designers such as Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Valentino and Yves St. Laurent...
...June 16, Terrill spent 40 days in the People's Republic, visiting rural communes and vacation resorts as well as seven major cities, including Shanghai and Peking, where he met Premier Chou Enlai. Terrill's determination to see as much as he could-"the actual world of sweat and cicadas, boiled rice and bicycles" -led to what he calls "a friendly tension between the authorities and myself." Because he speaks Chinese, they were worried that he spent too much time mingling with the people. Politely but firmly, they tried to keep him from browsing in local bookstores, visiting...
Soon afterwards, Kramer was led upstairs to the main auditorium of the Spingold Theater (which looks as rich as it sounds). About thirty people there had been watching an assemblage of film clips hyped by Columbia as a "Kramer retrospective". Kramer was showing a little more sweat on his brow...