Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleges can help eliminate some of the negative implications of the games. Stop holding pep rallies which incite the fans to kill that Saturday's foe. Field hockey, volleyball and baseball teams don't seem to have any trouble getting psyched for their games without dancing in a gymnasium full of bunners and screaming fans. Stop charging so much for tickets and soaking the television networks for all they are worth. Using the excuse that football is expensive and has to pay for itself and because it is profitable and must support the rest of the athletic program is only...
...corniches. Only the cooks were up and about in the reinforced-concrete Aviation Safety Building on the edge of the Beirut International Airport, used as headquarters by the Eighth Marine Battalion of the U.S. part of the peace-keeping force. Built around a courtyard, the headquarters contained a gymnasium, a reading room, the administrative offices and the communications center for the battalion. It was also sleeping quarters for some 200 Marines; most were still in their cots, enjoying the luxury of Sunday, the one day of the week when they were free from reveille. Suddenly a truck, laden with dynamite...
...beat Penn St. (Cincinnati), a respectable achievement even with the terrible year the Nittany Lions are having... Brown is the only team that has solved the problem of preparing for away games on artificial turf. It built a full-size artificial turf practice field on top of its main gymnasium...
...remained in that condition for many months. The wardens refused to let me walk outside the gymnasium. I learned later that they wanted to maintain complete secrecy concerning my re-education in order to win a propaganda victory with all those who, expecting me in a wheelchair, would be astonished to see me walking normally. At that time I was far from imagining that the treatment was, in fact, an anticipation of my release. I was in complete isolation. I thought this was the result of a government decision aimed at putting a stop to the campaign, which I suspected...
...Cambra explained to me that I would, in a very short time, recover the ability to walk straight and that it was a question of readaptation of the brain. Then, during a whole week of intensive exercises, I was made to walk up and down stairs, exercise in the gymnasium, even go out on the track in the worst of the heat...