Word: sweating
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...Shulman has observed that college students attending left wing organization meetings should come in after a brisk run, smelling of sweat, and consequently establishing some identity with the toiling classes...
...means. But the very nature of that fight made it impossible for the troops to take all precautions. Men would struggle up the steep hills to drive out the Chinese and protect the column of vehicles; their feet would perspire, then they would be pinned down and the sweat would turn to ice. They had no facilities for drying socks and even changing them must have been difficult. Men arrived in Hagaru [a clearing station] with a shell of ice around their feet inside their boots...
When the fighters entered the Madison Square Garden ring, Williams, who was still earnestly shadow-boxing eight hours before the fight to sweat off the last three-quarters of a pound, looked string-muscled and drawn from the strain of making the weight. Carter, also 27 and a natural lightweight (133 lbs.), looked plump in comparison. And he did not seem to have read the jeering predictions of the sportwriters...
...Until midnight of Thursday before Easter," he said, "everything was as it had been these past 25 years. She visualized Jesus on the Mount of Olives, which brought sweat to her body and blood dripping from her eyes. Then, all of a sudden, just before midnight, her eyes stopped bleeding. She was further tortured in her visions of Jesus' passion and felt mental and physical pains as she had done before. But the bleeding had stopped completely . . . We must take the naked facts as they are. Maybe it was a divine protest against these mass visits organized by money...
...price freeze to let OPS study the price situation. Valentine vetoed it. With that slight push Economic Stabilizer Valentine fell and Price Boss Di Salle's promoter, Eric Johnston, moved in. It was Di Salles first fight in Washington, and he came of it without a bead of sweat on his brow. He let nothing ruffle him. "You know how it is here," he said. "We get a crisis every 20 minutes. But the thing that makes it bearable is this-I'll bet you can't remember what last week's big crisis...