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Word: sweated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent, and some occasionally breach the outer defenses. After entering the bloodstream and tissues, they multiply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard men's tennis team barely broke a sweat this weekend, probably wishing it was soaking up rays on the banks of the Charles instead of drowning a pair of opponents at the Beren Tennis Center...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Cannonball Cadets, Big Bad Red | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Apollo crowds love to see, the ritual of public humiliation that also awaited Arthur Johnson. He tried, he gave it everything. "You and I together/ The dream seemed so real . . .," he sang, embellishing the slinky lyrics with pelvic thrusts and a swaying imitation of sensuality. But the song, Keith Sweat's soul hit I Want Her, doomed him. Some classic Motown would have given him a fighting chance: the familiar opening chords might have warmed the crowd before he even opened his mouth. But Sweat's ode to funky frustration was fraught with peril. Topping Billboard's soul chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amateur Night In New York: Triumph and Terror at the Apollo | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

This training couldn't have been easy. "It's scary" to be onstage, said Cinthia Germain, one of the stars. "They make you sweat when you rehearse...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Watching the Dances of the Little People | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...program gets students to make an investment of themselves, so that they're not just helping another Third World country, says Wills, a Dartmouth graduate. "What they get is the friendship with these people. It's not just grime and sweat," he says. "That's as simple as that...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

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