Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says Dorothy Polk of Charlotte, N.C.: "Black children tend not to join in as much, and this is a matter of concern...
...about 1 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon last October. The captain of the Reasonable Women, an intramural basketball team at Catholic University law school in Washington, D.C., was early when she headed into the gym for practice. The women's locker room looked deserted. It was not. As the woman slipped into her togs, a young black man stepped into view. Frightened, she asked him to leave and made a break for the door. He grabbed her, choked her and raped her. When he heard other voices approaching, he escaped...
...victim, 24, sued the university. She argued that the assault was a direct result of the school's failure to provide proper security at the gym. After a five-day trial, a D.C. jury agreed and awarded the student $20,000 in compensatory damages. "A very bad precedent," Catholic University Counsel Denver Graham calls it. "A university cannot be the insurer of everyone who comes onto the campus." The precedent, however, rests on well-established principles applied more and more across the U.S. Juries are penalizing slack security against rape attacks and are likely to make those they find...
...whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously. "I think I have been chosen to be recognized in a certain kind of way. Producers...
...brown slacks and worn sneakers she looks like a gym instructor. The 170 people gathered before her rise and begin stretching. Then they start rubbing and kneading one another's necks and shoulders. As it turns out, the main thing on their minds is not physical fitness but singing. The woman signals with her right hand. Out comes a huge roar: "Ming ... mo!" A pause, another signal. "Ming mong!" And so it goes, now higher in pitch, now lower: "Ming mang...