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...There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad. It is a collection of chrome-plated, hand-tooled specialists. Some never get a chance to make a tackle, others never throw a block. Usually none stays in a game long enough to work up as much sweat as the radio announcer, who tries to keep track of them as they trot...
...beds. But last week South Africa's weather-beaten, 77-year-old Prime Minister spoke of troubled nights. To women members of his United Party gathered in Pretoria he said: "Have you ever had the experience of waking at 2 o'clock in the morning in a sweat of not knowing how to solve the problems of tomorrow-as I have experienced throughout my life? I sometimes say that mankind today is at 2 o'clock in the morning...
...this point Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how it must shatter the nerves of a Russian writer to worry constantly whether the new party doctrine or revised state formula of 'social realism' or 'formalism' or 'objectivism' . . . has already become passe and the mark only of a 'decadent counter-revolutionary tool...
From a Union of Beggars? Washington studied the report seriously but without enthusiasm. Top level policymakers appreciated the sweat and good intentions which had gone into it, but in many respects they considered it discouragingly unsatisfactory...
Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...