Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nesty had the proper encouragement from his environment and family--when he was eight, his father simply threw him into the water and told him to learn how to swim...
Garrison is a Black who overcame long odds to get where she is today. She grew up on the wrong side of Houston, learning her tennis at dangerous Riverside Park, the wrong place for a young teen to learn anything...
...there is a significant difference. Dukakis had four years to learn his lessons. Graham needs to cram for a final less than seven weeks away...
...moves her: "You never cuddled me, did you? . . . And you never let me follow your finger along the line of nice big $ words ((like)) 'Once upon a time.' " He will relive what was never his, "my American childhood," by tossing tantrums like a spoiled four-year-old. He will learn that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again is as good an occupation as any. In fact, it's a pretty good career!" He will caress Linda and bully her and play M-O-T-H-E-R on the living room piano...
...persuaded to enter the very long races that are scheduled occasionally -- a 16-miler, say -- "she would beat the men." This may be true. The gender game doesn't prove much; other top women swimmers now equal men's records of 20 years ago. But it is interesting to learn that Evans' 4:05.45 world record for the 400-meter free beats Mark Spitz's 4:07.7 world record of 1968, and that her 800-meter free record, 8:17.12, would have won any men's race until...