Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Realizing that his squad had little chance to qualify for the trip to Wichita. Coach Bill McNulty entered only his healthiest runners. Injured seniors Adam Dixon and Peter Mcnulty all opted to stay in Cambridge for successful indoor track seasons...
...Tough," "intense," "competitive" are common descriptions of his attitude toward running. "He's certainly learned to face adversity," says coach McCurdy. "He's very, very strong, very, very, tough." "He's the kind of guy who takes the sport very seriously and tries very hard," notes team captain Adam Dixon. "In a sport in which you can never be sure of what's ahead of you he never assumes that he's reached his peak." If Johnson does poorly, he recognizes it and makes determined efforts to lower his times...
Lavea Brachman and Adam Cohen are sophomore concentrators in Social Studies. A Funding Inequity? History and Lit Social Studies Number of Concentrators 245 250 Number of Full-time Teaching Fellows 17.20 6.90 Junior Tutorial Size...
...Mich., sanatoriums. With cheerful innocence, Americans have periodically embarked on reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world." So Ralph Waldo Emerson toasted the American spirit. But the "old" Adam, that rugged and predatory individualist, in his current incarnation is caught in a dilemma: how to survive an increasingly imperfect, not to say hostile, environment...
...squad, for all of its attributes, has raised some questions for Fish and his top players. Funds for special trips are scarce; so is court time. Varsity captain Adam Beren concedes that there is a certain ambivalence "over whether we shouldn't go all out to make the top six a really great national power...