Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a member of the women's rowing team is an exhausting four year process. National testing is conducted each year in November and February. During the year of the Olympics, a winter camp is held. Last December, Thompson left school at Thanksgiving and went to Seattle, the site of one two rowing training centers, for three weeks. She was evaluated by the Olympic coaches, went through technical drills and competed in seat races...
...June, Thompson competed at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis where the two training centers faced off. Thirty people, including Thompson, who raced with the Boston center and whose boat came in second, were invited to another Olympic camp...
...Harris poll, done Friday through Monday, did find movement towards the Bush camp, albeit less overall than in the NBC-Journal poll. Harris put the race at 53-44 percent, much better for Bush than his 50-48 lead in a Harris poll...
...have to wait until we look starved, like victims of a concentration camp," said Guernsey. "At that point the press will pick it up and the pressure will build. Now we are laying the groundwork for that...
Though Bentsen claimed that his J.F.K. line was spontaneous, it had been germinating for days. The weekend before the debate, the Bentsen camp descended on Austin for practice sessions. In a vacant basement bar adjacent to the Four Seasons Hotel, they set up a mock debate stage. Congressman Dennis Eckart, a golf tee stuck jauntily behind one ear, played Quayle. But Bentsen was nervous; he was not having fun. (They did not realize it at the time, but Bentsen aides mistakenly positioned him at the wrong lectern.) Then at one point Eckart, playing Quayle, compared himself to Kennedy. Bentsen became...