Word: toiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer athletes also merit at least a modicum of recognition for years of anonymous toil. Deprived--some would say robbed--of a chance to strut their stuff on the world's stage, tributes are even more in order. Since the athletes have become pawns among the players of international politics--particularly ironic when you consider the government's total failure to support amateur sport--this summer's events may mark the death of what grains of incentive remain for American amateur athletes. Now that we have faced the fact that the Olympics will not be with us this summer...
...harsh; some economic crimes, such as major embezzlement of state property, can even bring death. Judges generally do not hand down the long prison hitches that U.S. courts often mete out in anticipation of early parole, but Soviet convicts are more likely to serve full terms. And they toil hard, both in the prisons where repeat offenders or dangerous criminals are kept and in the work camps housing most of the convict population of about 2 million...
...business of setting and topping records has got completely out of hand in the 20th century. Merely keeping track of records requires the toil of a considerable industry and the regular publication of hundreds of thick books with fine print. Scores of thousands of new records are claimed every year. There would be a surfeit even if the world of sports did not chip in its promiscuous confetti of records...
John M. Kain, chairman of CRP, will keep his headquarters in Gund until additions are built onto the K-School, a project due for completion in late 1982. Until then CRPites will toil far away from their official new home...
...boys, were on call to serve tea, run errands, and polish boots of top seniors. Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century. The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil...