Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even individual muscles contain different fibers that respond to specialized training. The two primary types are so-called fast-twitch fibers, which contract rapidly to produce large amounts of power, and slow-twitch fibers, which generate less force but don't tire as quickly...
...have finally run out. The U.N. inspection team that had been parked round the clock outside Iraq's Agriculture Ministry for 17 days, waiting to search for missile documents believed to be stashed inside, abandoned its mission. Faced with menacing mob demonstrations that included peltings with eggs and tomatoes, tire slashings and an attempted assault with a skewer, the inspectors retreated, empty-handed...
...behind the desk of John Deere president David H. Stowe Jr. The painting has been used in countless texts on art and history and is worth more than $1 million. By 1922 nearly 700,000 moldboard plows were being built by all U.S. manufacturers. Then came the giant rubber-tire tractors that made it possible to link as many as 24 plow bottoms that turned the earth in great rooster tails as if it were water off the bow of a ship...
Normal mortals tend to tire, and Knowles admitsthe job has taken its toll: "I have lost hairoften, temper rarely, sleep always...
More often, Felix is only asked to rebuild aheel or repair a sole. Customers often bring in anew pair of shoes so he can attach a rubber bottommade by Pirelli, the Italian tire company. Thisrubber bottom protects the leather sole from wear.Most jobs cost 10 or 20 dollars, but he works onshoes that cost $200 or $300, or more. Shoes asdressy as a Brooks Brothers suit but ascomfortable as a well-worn flight jacket. "My timeis your time. I'm gonna be taking the time toexplain to the customer what it is that I'm doing.That...