Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main gym looks like something out of a small Midwestern high school, with one official size basketball court and two smaller adjacent ones. The stands are of the fold-down variety and hold about...
...Newell Boat House, just at the line that divides the vast room stacked with boats and oars from the grey pier that slopes gently down to the Charles River. Like the other ten women who stood in a semicircle listening to their coach. Harry Parker, she was wearing gym shorts and a tank top--hers was grey, with blue letters that said "U.S.A. Rowing Team Camp." But unlike the others, on her large, strong hands she wore protective leather gloves...
Wiki Royden wandered out of an entry, still in her gym shorts, and sat on the steps at Nancy's feet. She had been a junior at Radcliffe last year, but dropped out in the fall and went home to California to just do nothing for the first time since she was 12--the first time she hadn't been in school or working out regularly or both. Then she came back in the spring to train at the Eastern Development Camp, where she met Maggie and Nancy, and in June she won the Nationals in a single scull...
...Frazier. The right hand belongs to Marvis Frazier, 14, Smokin' Joe's son and newest sparring partner. "I've been trying to keep him out of here for five or six years or more," says the ex-champ, who has been training at his Philadelphia gym for a Sept. 30 bout with Muhammad Ali. "But he keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch and a half taller than his father and has a longer reach, worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering...
...PROBABLY started laughing at the loser in grade school gym class--you know, the kid who could never do a somersault without slipping on his shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them...