Word: tiring
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...stocky man with blond hair walked slowly around the deserted dirt race track, assessing its surface with an expert eye, calculating the bank of its curves. He made a mental note of every hole and soft spot, the oil slicks, the mud clods that could jar a hot rubber tire whirling along at more than 100 m.p.h. Melvin E. ("Tony") Bettenhausen, the year's hottest U.S. driver, and possibly the best since Ralph de Palma, 35 years ago, was planning how to drive a race...
Exeter started to tire, but it wasn't until 11:50 of the third quarter that Roland Hok chested a ball past the Red and Gray goalie, Lindsey Fisher. Then the freshmen caught fire, and dominated the play with their short-passing game. Mike Blumenfeld scored early in the last period, but the home team held and the game ended...
Conditioning exercises, to which Jordan and his assistants devote a great deal of the squad's time, make all the difference. For not only will a well-conditioned squad tire more slowly, but it is also far less prone to twist-turn-sprain type injuries. Saturday proved the Crimson's superiority here. The local team finished strong, while Springfield wilted in the September heat. And though Jordan's team showed no bad effects from the heavy contacts. Springfield injuries stopped play at least four times...
...industry's billion-dollar sales league (TIME, May 7) has included no rubber company. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. qualified on the basis of its first-half sales of $544,642,341, the biggest in its history. Goodyear also chalked up an alltime record net of $20,685,820 after taxes, a gain of 73% over IO'S first half...
Hill decided to make his craft as light as possible, to clear the rocks and bob quickly to the surface after the 162-ft. drop. He fashioned a cylinder of 13 truck-tire inner tubes held together with netting, fitted it with an air mattress, christened it The Thing. This week a crowd of more than 100,000 Sunday sightseers gathered for two miles along the banks of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls to watch the show; Hill's mother was among them...