Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average man's size, muscle and bone mass, fat distribution and structure of elbow joints and pelvis give him advantages in strength, speed, throwing and jumping. He also is superior in physical endurance and heat tolerance, partly because his heart and lung size, oxygen uptake, hemoglobin content and sweat-gland function differ from a woman...
...People's Republic of China is as much a land of paradox and poesy, blood, sweat, glory and incongruity as the riven country that greeted Marco Polo. The temples and tombs, palaces and pagodas and gardens, majestic mountains and mighty rivers, art and artifacts as old as civilization: they are all there, glittering, tangible and not quite believable. Off the usual tourist track are the ramshackle tenements, mud-walled village cottages and the grinding labor of the peasant, equally hard for the Westerner to comprehend. They will all become picture postcards of the mind, but on first encounter they...
...letdown. You had all that adrenalin--didn't you get excited, especially considering "all ya gotta do is steer?" But hey, it was no sweat, right? Nothin' to it, right...
...driven us to the station; if he will listen to the harsh or tender things we say if we are with our families, or notice the way we put our suitcase onto the rack, check the position of our wallet, our key ring, and wipe the sweat off the back of our necks; if he can judge sensibly the selfimportance, diffidence, or sadness with which we settle ourselves, he will be given a broader view of our lives than most of us would intend...
...glad the chaff, sweat and fatigue are still there, providing roots and memories for another generation...