Word: tiring
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...scene must have looked like something being staged for a Fassbinder movie. The whiz of Volkswagens streaming along the Autobahn slowed down as drivers ogled the spectacle at the side of the road. There sat a Peugeot with a blown-out tire, and perched on a suitcase near by sat a bespectacled Chinese youth serenely playing Haydn on his cello...
...hard enough. If you don't have size, you need speed. The coach can always bring in subs, so they ought to get out there and run hard for three minutes, then come out and rest again. They need to play more like the Celtics; you run like mad, tire out the opposition, then come back strong in the second half and win. Games like that build confidence, then you start to build a winning tradition...
Poor Omega. Once the pride of the Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo, he is now an outcast. Rejected by two female companions, the hefty 450-lb. gorilla sits alone in his cage, forlornly munching on alfalfa or taking a lackadaisical swing on the rubber tire hanging from his ceiling. Omega's problem is that he is sterile...
...both squads began to tire, the buckets passed back and forth regularly amidst erratic passing, fast breaks, and numerous Holy Cross personal fouls. Harvard sent in a whole new line, and the appearance of Pat Horne, Janet Judge, Rose Guarino and Kate Martin brought fresh energy to the weary hoopsters...
...transportation industries makes it sensitive to economic downturns. In Detroit, unemployment pushes into the upper ten percentages as the Big Three lay off workers and register record level quarter losses. The Youngstown-Akron area of Ohio has lost tens of thousands of jobs with steel and Firestone tire plant closings and related business lost. In the same area and other states, outdated steel plants have shut down rather than modernize because the Big Three own enough steel rusting on four wheels in huge factory parking lots. As the old Detroit saying laments, "When the economy catches cold, Detroit catches pneumonia...