Word: gymnasium
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...hundred people were crowded into the gymnasium of the Longfellow School where the votes were being counted; the audience included nearly every politico in the city, and normally they are a talkative bunch. But when it came time to start distributing the votes, they grew absolutely silent, waiting to hear the calls of the elderly women who would examine the ballots and announce where they were going. "Duehay...Russell...Danehy...Dane hy...Wolf...Danehy...
Workers recently completed a renovation project at the old Radcliffe Gymnasium, making room for new offices and changing a second-floor basketball court to a dance floor...
...tanks stand ready to go to war-if they can churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points...
...Each had the opportunity to work with young composers. Over the campus came the cries of tortured pianos and punished brass. Exotic instruments punctuated classes in Afro-American, jazz and a variety of modern dance disciplines. The Erick Hawkins technique had students working on the floor of an old gymnasium to the music of Chinese gongs, while others moaned in the transports of "deep muscle therapy." Even professional critics engaged in feisty controversies at the A.D.F. commissary, the Barre. And when attention turned to the six evenings of new dance performances, the arguments intensified. Was it dance or an Esther...
COST members are riled most by what they regard as educational frills and extras in the budget, which the board of education insists has already been "cut to the bone." Among the budget items that rankle most: $23,000 for art-instruction supplies, $13,000 for a gymnasium divider net, $3,600 for a color TV and video taping system...