Word: tiring
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Only after victory in the amateur competition (and Jernigan's singles win over teammate David Boyum) in San Francisco did the squad seem to tire of winning, actually dropping an occasional individual game against less challenging Tufts and Dartmouth...
...cockflights of mine coal. Attached to the land, they feel trapped and in complete in their tedious, brutal jobs and empty relationships with family and women but a more satisfying life is out of reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms and pool halls and in the company of prostitutes and winos. He knows that his job. "to watch barge rats and walk the wet steel edges," is dangerous, and the casualties of river accidents haunt him. But he resigns himself to an existence like...
DIED. Gitullio Campagnolo, 81, designer and manufacturer of the world's best bicycle parts; in Monselice, Italy. After losing a 1927 Alpine race because he could not unstick frozen wheel nuts to change a tire, Campagnolo invented the release system now widely used for removing wheels, also devised improved gearshifts and some 50 other items (but not a complete bicycle) that have made the nickname "Campy" cycledom's synonym for efficiency...
While Bridgestone builds a large share of the tires on Japanese cars and trucks bound for the U.S., it has only a small fraction of the American replacement-tire market. With protectionist sentiment against imports on the rise, Bridgestone Chairman Kanichiro Ishibashi, son of the founder, decided that the surest way to boost American sales was to produce tires in the U.S. Initially, Bridgestone officials talked of building a new plant, but Firestone Chairman John Nevin, who has been streamlining his firm, persuaded the Japanese company last February to buy the tire factory at LaVergne...
...pharaonic enterprise, Rauschenberg has been producing some of the best work of his career. Some of it involves materials quite new in his oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze...