Word: lifeguard
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...likened to a living being," say Hurst Hannum and Robert S. Blumberg in The Fine Wines of California. "It thrives on proper care and can turn against those who mistreat it." Restaurant Reviewer Gael Greene, not completely seriously, pronounces Gallo Hearty Burgundy "as refreshing as a 17-year-old lifeguard on the Fourth of July...
...ADAMS HOUSE bathroom I have two towels; not Gordon Linen, but "B rough of Camden." They come from Camden, a suburb north of London, and they were given to me by a lifeguard there. I first saw him standing beside the pool flexing his arms. He was wearing long white pants and a yellow sleeveless shirt. I wanted to laugh, but instead I asked him where I could put my towel. He inspected it; it was small and tatty. "Is this all you have?" he asked me in accented English...
...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 overlooking a tennis court through glass windows, and while we talked a game went on. I can't remember too much...
...dinner was held to honor those individuals, from swimmers to lifeguard, who have contributed to the Radcliffe swimming program, but the conversation centered around the fate of Radcliffe sports in the face of the Harvard "non-merger" and the recent architects" studies...
...past few years, the mention of Ted Nash has struck pain into the blistered calluses of oarsmen up and down the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The former flight instructor, juvenile judge of traffic, guerrilla warfare teacher and resident lifeguard on the Schuylkill the recently saved two people from drowning there is as much a legend around Penn as Parker is at Harvard...