Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement of the moment. For the first time in the 84-year history of the Penn Relays, the world's largest and oldest meet of its kind, an afternoon of women's track and field competition is scheduled. The infield shimmers with color, a kaleidoscope of uniforms and warmup suits. One thousand college and high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll on the synthetic green turf, sipping cocoa and waiting. Susan White, a 19-year-old hurdler from...
...three-mile Navy race should serve as a warmup for the Crimson eight, which has not raced since the Sprints. The Yale race, an annual four-mile affair on the Thames at New London, will be the main event on the Crimson's post-exam schedule...
They were allowed a total of two practice starts--no other warmup--by the starter (yes, he was in the boat which swamped Harvard's) who asked them sarcastically if they "intended to row." They did indeed as they proved in the heat, rowing cold and at an extremely slow cadence of 31 but still winning by 5.3 seconds over Princeton...
...Carter put it last week in a kind of warmup talk to the Communications Workers of America at a White House reception, "The inflation rate is creeping up. And unless we stand firm, cut out waste, have a sound economy, stabilize the dollar, have the energy package passed, cut down unnecessary spending and hold down the budget deficit, we are all going to be robbed of the [economic] improvements we made with your help during the last year...
...housewives) had been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...