Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what. If you don't do well, you will be referred to the Bureau of Study Counsel reading comprehension course, which will cost you. But if you do poorly, you might do well to take the minicourse. If you think you just had a bad day, don't sweat and don't bother signing up. If you've taken the Spanish, French or German placement test--Remember those? Remember the language requirement? --earlier in the day, you might merely be tired by the time you plough through the soporific reading...
...lost some of the flexibility of the spine required in the snatch, in which a man must bend deep and sweep the bar overhead in a single, flowing motion. He also seems slower today, getting under the bar late and, sometimes, not getting there at all. He starts to sweat profusely as he warms up, a bad sign that does not go unnoticed. He looks fine trying the clean and jerk, in which a lifter brings the bar chest-high, then heaves it overhead...
Workers in the old-line "sweat and toil" industries, which once symbolized America's economic might, are now suffering the worst unemployment. Stretching across the nation's manufacturing heartland, from the foothills of the Alleghenies, west to the Mississippi River and north to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stands an idle army of the jobless...
...East Side, has put together one of the best comedy acts in the trade by dealing shamelessly in things other comics struggle to hide-like fear, anger and humiliation. In performance, Dangerfield is the enemy of poise. A minute after he hits the lights, his brow throws off sweat like a lawn sprinkler. His eyes bulge. His hands claw at his throat. He may be trying to loosen his tie, but it looks as if he is trying to strangle himself. The whole performance is a screwball incarnation of the comedian's deepest nightmare: flop sweat, the purgatorial feeling...
...ideas, gags, nutty notions for routines. A few made it out of the drugstore. Some, like Joe Ancis, were brilliant in the booth and on the street; Bruce once admitted that he owed maybe a third of his act to Joe. But Ancis trembled before the prospect of flop sweat. He never went onstage. Others, like Rodney, fought the flops, but never got out quite far enough. When he married Singer Joyce Indig, he was close to 30 and still far from the big time. He worried that long weeks working joints on the road would hurt the marriage...