Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added, "I remember all the times I would be in some disgusting hostel and being incredibly hot--with sweat pouring down my face--thinking, 'what the hell am I doing here...
Baker's detractors say he fails to bone up on complex issues, relying on his staff to sweat the details. He has been called overcautious, too reluctant to challenge Reagan's views on issues like defense spending. And besides taking heat from archconservatives outside the White House who questioned his loyalty, Baker often tangled with such longtime Reaganauts as Edwin Meese and William Clark. "My job is not to go into the Oval Office and advocate a view because I happen to believe it strongly," said Baker last year. "My job is to let the President know what I think...
...lights flicker out on another year of sweat, they are threatening to come up at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where the Cubs illuminated last summer with a natural glow. By winning the National League's East Division and taking two quick playoff games from the San Diego Padres, they did momentary damage to a 39-year tradition but promptly squared themselves by blowing three straight to the Padres. God is in heaven, the Cubs are on a losing streak, and all is right with the baseball world...
...album's hits because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere. Shut Out the Light, recorded for Born in the U.S.A. but weeded out in the final editing process, is simple, stark, folk-inflected and filled with a kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button...
...underground resistance to the Nazis in 1940; after his capture two years later, he survived six concentration camps. To a political opponent, the slight, ascetic Bratteli was "one of a dying race of social democrats who came from a poor background and made his way through the hard sweat of his own labor...