Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly uncomfortable day, a day of water rationing necessitated by the water's insistence upon staying in the air, the Army is guarding the bronze. The two soldiers stand, staring each other into trances, polished bayonets and helmets gleaming in the midday sun. Their faces are covered with sweat. A civilian strides up to the soldiers from the crowd and pulls a wet washcloth from his pocket. He begins to dab the faces of the two men, methodically. They do not move, speak, blink, but they allow him to shift their chin straps slightly to wipe their lips. He asks...
...easy-talking fellow, was in his 20s, breaking horses up in Oregon, when he got a box of paints for Christmas. As a boy he'd drawn horses. Now he took a horse out into the corral, tied it to a post and began to paint. And felt sweat break out on his forehead. "I had never had the experience of being so excited." So he enrolled in art school in Oakland, taking with him a couple of his horses. He lasted less than a term. "They'd have all these pots on a table, and you were...
...whipping of first-place Brown as his finest moment. "I didn't know if I was going to play a half-hour before game time. As it turns out, I had the best day of my life. Everything worked perfectly; it was so easy. I hardly worked up a sweat...
Soon Soldiers Field will stand abandoned as the last of the outdoor athletes migrate to warmer spheres. Some of the lucky will fly to Florida or Puerto Rico for spring training. For the rest of us, we must confine our sweat and adrenaline to the raftered halls of the I.A.B., the I.T.T., or Blodgett Pool, names that conjure up images of corporate investment firms instead of lush green Elysian fields...
...curious bystanders. Despite its vile temper, the camel is prized for its ability to withstand searing desert temperatures with a bagful of survival tricks. Among them are its unusual abilities to retain water in the bloodstream (with the help of high concentrations of a special kind of albumin), sweat so little that its skin almost always feels dry, and keep out heat with a coat of thick...