Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credibility with the American people. If they wished to doze off through the '50s, they counted on Ike to wake them when anything important came up. Reagan, for all of his crinkling swell-guy charm, says things that tend to keep people sitting bolt upright, with sweat on their palms...
LIKE ITS PARENT film, Airplane! is the story of some smelly fish--fish that makes you break out in a cold sweat, experience severe muscle spasms, puke your guts out and then faint dead away. It all sounds rather dull until some passengers, the navigator, the co-pilot and the pilot (played by the wonderfully straight Peter "Good morning Mr. Phelps" Graves) happen to choose fish for dinner. Then things begin to happen. The plane goes out of control, the stewardess switches on the automatic pilot and the doctor (played by Leslie "Watch me tackle that wave" Nielsen) manages...
...AWOKE ONE morning in Winthrop to gray and red, colors of perfidy. Bricks, rain and Memorial Hall: blood, sweat, tears. A slight stomache ache precluded moussaka. Time to ask big questions, time to consider things buried in black and white reading lists. So he was driven to sleep 12 hours at a time, to postpone thinking although ideas danced fitfully. He contemplated writing a book on procrastination, but he knew he'd never finish. Thin layers of tension peeled away, evincing gastric elegies. Thought would have to wait...
...sticky day and his t-shirt was wet with sweat. He chose to forego the thick air, so he stayed prone and parched until he felt stiff and starched. Consider the limit as n approaches infinity...if n is infinitely far away, what of 2n? A sticky question, so take instead the limits to growth...when does a less developed country become developed? When does mortality end and force begin? Sketch the graph. Draw the line. Are martyrs altruists or egoistic hedonists at heart? But it all harks back to the distinction between Nazism and Hitlerism--if, in fact...
...nurse disturbed him no longer. He didn't care about relinquishing blood. He loved the smell of apple juice in the morning. The bright white room shielded him from the gray and red and sweat and tears...