Word: tiring
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...Crimson representatives fell to former Harvard players, John Ince carried his first game against Dinny Adams 17-16, but then began to tire and lost, 18-16, 15-7, 15-12. "I've never been so tired in my life." Ince said. "The courts were very hot and he simply had more endurance...
Halfway through the second period, however, the Warriors-who brought only two lines and two sets of defensemen to Watson-seemed to tire and loss their scrappiness. And soon after, Merrimack goalie Pat Finch was hit in the head by a slap shot. Raising his hand to his head repeatedly throughout the rest of the game, he was significantly less effective...
Stevens missed the whole point: the arctic ecosystem is full of life (including Eskimos) but is so vulnerable to pollution that the North Slope threatens to become a classic example of man's mindless destruction. The intense cold impedes nature's ability to heal itself; tire marks made in the tundra 25 years ago are still plainly visible. What most worries ecologists, in fact, is man's blindness to his own utter dependency on all ecosystems, such as oceans, coastal estuaries, forests and grasslands. Those ecosystems constitute the biosphere, a vast web of interacting organisms and processes that form...
...mixed with large amounts of Soviet wheat. Many find the result unpalatable. Domestic rice production takes about 40 times the number of man-hours per pound that it does in Russia or Japan-partly because women workers, who now constitute more than 80% of the labor force, tire quickly in the paddies. According to Hanoi Moi, the capital's main daily, food lines have grown so long that some stores pass out "appointment numbers," assigning the customer a specific time to shop...
...Crimson, beginning to tire from the rough Canadian style, was experiencing unusual trouble clearing, and Toronto forwards, who managed only 15 shots on Durno in the first 40 minutes, bombarded him with 17 in the final period...