Word: gymnasiums
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...There were times, he writes, when he "wanted to vomit" at the futile debate in the House about the war. Angry, he once took the floor to expose the fact that many of his colleagues were absent from the discussion because they were playing paddle ball in the House gymnasium...
...name was. But he gave me two more towels and what could I do but agree to have tea? Accordingly after the swim I went upstairs to the cafeteria that was part of the Camden complex--they had another pool for training and indoor tennis courts and a gymnasium--and waited for about fifteen minutes, reading, until he could get a break--probably with a lot of teasing from the other lifeguard on duty that day. I saw him coming down the hall flexing his arms and doing a kneebend or two, and we walked in. We took a table...
...time Katims got to Bethel, the orchestra had already given full symphonic concerts in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau. Now, in the high school gymnasium, Katims led a 16-member string ensemble before an enthusiastic crowd of adults and children that overflowed from bleachers and folding chairs onto the floor. There was an overflow of the overflow when a chorus of 94 children came out to join Katims in Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus...
Inside the vast gymnasium of West Side High School in Gary, Ind., a kaleidoscope swirled and shifted: elegant pantsuits vied with flowing African dresses. Brightly colored, long-collared shirts from Harlem's streets brushed past stetsons and string ties from Texas. The careful tailoring of pin-stripe suits contrasted with the bulky military garb of the separatist army of the Republic of New Africa. The politics of the assembled blacks-3,009 delegates to the first national political convention of blacks in the U.S.-were as wildly varied as their attire...
...just as brilliantly, though it must be remembered that aqraorak is not his forte. Joule is the world champion in nalukataak, in which contestants bounce on a walrus hide held fireman-style by two dozen assistants. Joule bounced to within inches of the ceiling in the town's gymnasium but later confessed that he does not really know what determines a winner in his chosen sport. "I think it has something to do with height and form," he said...