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...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...
Racquets is played on a court of sweat-proof concrete twice the size of a squash court. Even before the war, a court cost $50,000 to build. One London firm has the secret formula for the non-sweating cement, and trusts no one but its own masons with the mixing of it. The balls add to the game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only...
...passively for the most part--for they were predominantly veterans and long since line-calloused--through Memorial Hall. In University Hall the 1300 became holes in a card, names which doubled the population of the College. Four months later 900, and five months ago another 2500, worried, distended, made sweat the Administration...
...Them. Little (5 ft. 7 in.) Ambrose Ondrak is literally at home among the carcass-luggers and breast-splitters who sweat in the packing houses, among dirty-faced kids playing in vacant lots. He was born among them, of Czech immigrants, 54 years ago. As a boy he joined gangs, played sandlot football. On school holidays he weighed beef in the packing houses. In 1924, after he had been a priest for six years, he was sent to St. Michael's in the Back of the Yards district as assistant pastor. Since the pastor of St. Michael...
...object whose name begins with the same syllable (example: "new" and a newspaper). Eventually they get to know the syllable by itself. Says Director Gustavo Vallejo Larrea: "The most thrilling moment is when they read their first word without a picture. They consider it just short of a miracle-sweat, cry and try to kiss the teacher's hand...