Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WEEKS BRIDGE, and sites overlooking scenic Charles River--The Head of the Charles Regatta has never pretended to be a purely athletic even in its 25-year history. For all the Erg tests, stadiumstep runs and other sweat-intensive training methods, the autumn culmination of the rowers' Sisyphean efforts is met mostly by that oh-so-collegiate monchalance on the part of lounging spectators along the banks of the dirty water...
...Cash is soaking with sweat and stomping the floor. His neck veins are popping and his eyes are bulging as he works his way from inmate to inmate, delivering a series of blistering, nose-to-nose tongue-lashings. At the end of Cash's 45-minute outburst, the frightened inmates run right out of their shoes into a dressing room -- and another bout of humiliation. As if on cue, an aide shows up with electric clippers and shaves the young men's heads. The inmates then strip naked, and an assistant sprays them with delousing fluid. All the while, Cash...
...country's development before Deng came to power. Later in the week, Jiang gave a major anniversary address to top party leaders, model workers and soldiers that was larded with phrases from China's Stalinist past. "Failure to stick to the socialist road, while using the blood and sweat of laborers to fatten the capitalist class, will plunge most of the Chinese people into extreme poverty once again," he warned. Referring to sanctions imposed on China by some Western nations, he vowed never to "give up our national independence in exchange for alms...
Farm gets as close to the sweat and slim profit margins of an uncertain occupation as any suburban slicker could imagine. Rhodes says he filled 42 notebooks during working visits to Tom Bauer's Missouri farm, and he seems to have used every detail from them, including the squeal of Bauer's hogs...
Americans who stay at home can sample the fruits of Soviet industry at trendy stores like New York City's Bloomingdale's, which in August opened a Perestroika Shop. Back-to-school shoppers could choose last week from Soviet items that included watches, sunglasses and Red Star-emblazoned sweat shirts. The department store company is now negotiating to open one or two small Bloomingdale's shops in Moscow next spring. Not to be outdone, Nathan's Famous, a New York-based fast-food chain, last week shipped a 40-ft. mobile restaurant to Moscow, where it will open Sept...