Word: sweatingly
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...foundries rose to nearly 130°, they were sent home or, in some cases, walked out on their own. At the White House, Press Secretary Jody Powell had to explain why Jimmy Carter wanted to lunch alfresco in 93° heat: "It's an old Southern tradition to sweat in your food...
...rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat trickle down your back in a near-empty stadium in western Massachusetts, struggling to keep your head down on the ground balls as the fourth inning oozes imperceptibly into the eighth, while meantime all the fans are home watching the Red Sox on the tube. It is the memories of having to play...
Joggers make me sick. There are plenty of them around here. They run past me with supercilious smirks on their red faces. What are they trying to prove? I hope they all drown in their own sweat...
...apart. We've got no unity, no leadership. We're at the mercy of management. If you vote for me, I'll make the union great again." Having delivered that pitch, Harry Patrick, one of three candidates for president of the United Mine Workers, wipes the sweat from his brow and circles the spartan bathhouse of the Eccles mine near Beckley, W. Va., looking for another hand to shake. The miners, encrusted with coal dust and bathed in the harsh glare of mercury-vapor lamps, eye him as they change shifts at midnight. "Don't make...
...infinite patience and readily shucks clients who are uncooperative or past their prime. A former college golfer turned lawyer and the father of three, McCormack, almost singlehanded, persuaded the networks to televise professional tennis by lining up sponsors himself, and he is the promotional genius behind such TV sweat derbies as Celebrity Superstars and the N.F.L. Arm-Wrestling Championship-all of which are well-stocked with I.M.G. clients. "I'm not an agent," says McCormack. "I'm an engineer of careers...