Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depends on an increasingly important pool of perhaps 40,000 white reservists. Now even men between 38 and 50 are liable for service in "Dad's Army," as it is jestingly known. The growing exodus of young men reluctant to fight means call-ups are becoming ever more frequent. To strengthen the forces, over 100 hardened professional soldiers, mostly British and American, have been recruited...
...says, waving at his jeans, the American Indian jewelry hanging from his neck, and the Coyote T shirt bought at the Second Annual Hookers' Ball in Manhattan this year. The other major change: "The freedom to do things without regard to what they cost." The things include frequent trips abroad with his wife Monique, a twelve-cylinder Jaguar and a new-found taste for Laphroaig, a Scotch malt whisky that sells for $11 a fifth. "Five years ago," he says, "I didn't know what this stuff...
...with a pineapple, so naturally she falls in love with him. All this, in the right hands, could make a diverting screwball comedy. These are not the right hands. The film is a noisy, pell-mell piece of work. Deneuve has so little flair for physical comedy that the frequent closeups of her stunning face are more enlivening than her knockabout scenes. Montand is a cannier performer; his offhand Gallic charm offers a study in how an actor can operate at a safe distance from his material. Even his smile is pained, as well...
...Nequin started an exercise program for heart patients six years ago. The first step is a stress test, in which the subject runs on a treadmill while wired to an electrocardiograph. Then an exercise regime is set. The beginning pace may be a walk or a slow jog, with frequent pulse checks. Conditioning is slower than with healthy joggers, but the results can be startling. Ten of Nequin's patients, one of them a 47-year-old merchant who survived a triple bypass operation, were planning to run in a ten-mile race along the lakefront...
...Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...