Word: sweatsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dual meet there between the U.S. and East Germany, Naber stunned Matthes with his first backstroke defeats in seven years, whipping him in both sprints as well as the first leg of the medley relay. Following the meet, Naber wept after he received the East German's sweatsuit that he had exchanged...
There is little doubt that one of the simplest and most direct garments made, the warmup suit or sweatsuit, will be highly visible in the coming months. But the distance runner, who might work up a sweat just trying to get out of the old find-the-knot-in-the-drawstring model, may not recognize the glossy new suits. Wearers claim that they are more comfortable than blue jeans, and they are more flattering to most women. Along with modified riding pants, they are expected to be the most influential women's trousers for the fall. And not just...
...taxicab and frantically ordered him to stop. The man was a French television cameraman who had been assigned to record the first signs of the American presence in Peking but was having trouble locating Americans. "Finally, I saw a foreigner running in the freezing cold wearing a blue sweatsuit with red and white stripes," the cameraman explained. "I figured it had to be a crazy American." For the next hour, Rowan ran in circles between the Gate of Heavenly Peace and the Great Hall of the People while the Frenchman made his documentary...
Ditto: Phil Silvers. If someone is going to do an in-place jog in your living room in a blue sweatsuit, and rig the timer so that he won't collapse in the middling prime of his life, then why not share the pleasure of Phil's strenuously hilarious company? What with his toothy grin and Dennis' prehensile incisors, the pair might be auditioning for a dentists' convention...
Galeski is also bothered by the fact that he has to be losing weight six months out of the year-for crew and wrestling. "Last year my weight varied between 108 and 125. When I have to lose weight. I run around in my red sweatsuit and stop eating...