Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Motel (his real name) is a muscular, 24-year-old pressman for a Jacksonville newspaper. Today he is a heavy favorite in the 196-lb. and 228- lb. classes and so far has dispatched all his opponents, save one, without working up a sweat. Moe's technique is to stand expressionless at the table while his opponent grunts and strains against Moe's muscular arm. When an opponent's tugging has pumped enough blood into his arm, Moe slams the challenger to the table, then puffs up his considerable chest and walks erectly around the room, acknowledging congratulations with...
...game was for pride then. Just a chance to work up a little sweat, score a few touchdowns, go home and forget about...
After barely breaking a sweat during the first two games, the Crimson suffered a let-down, as the Lions fought off a late Crimson rally to win the third...
...wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse." But hitherto, politics has been far more tolerant of borrowings from Bartlett's than of monkey business in Bimini. In fact, some of the most famous lines of modern oratory have questionable paternity. Winston Churchill's "blood, toil, tears and sweat" was inspired by John Donne; John Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" echoed Oliver Wendell Holmes; and Ronald Reagan's 1980 debate cry, "I am paying for this microphone," was apparently lifted from a 1948 movie, State of the Union...
...introducing money to the state before the election), and the air conditioning was failing left and right. Jackets went first, then neckties. We made a car- to-car inspection in an effort not to melt, and were reminded of our Southern mother's line, i.e., Southern women don't sweat, they glow...