Word: palmes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little glamor is involved in boxing in Nigeria. A former national champion himself (1970 super lightweight), Young has spent decades traveling the countryside on the backs of trucks or on his motorcycle, recruiting the next generation of contenders...
...soon as the last punch of the evening's sparring is thrown, the area in front of the gym empties out. The bystanders start their motorcycles and head off to Uyo's bars to drink potent beer and palm-wine. Women with bundles balanced on their heads walk past the edge of the ring, paying no attention to the sweat-soaked men. The boxers mingle around the gym, discussing that evening's fights. They don't leave; they have no place else...
...origins of the bump are murky, though most communication experts agree on a basic - if fuzzy - evolutionary timeline: the handshake (which itself dates back to ancient times) begat the "gimme-five" palm slap that later evolved into the now universal "high-five" and, finally, the fist bump...
...recent raising of the Campaign’s sights, there’s going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundraising drive and refocus it into the new push. There’ll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...
...More projects are in the works. About an hour's motorbike ride down a red dirt road that trails off the coastal highway, residents of the fishing village of Angkoal have started selling their small holdings to real estate developers. One family, residents of a palm-fringed knob of land that slopes into the water, says their property is regularly visited by speculators. "They come every day," says Sry Mau - even though the place where the young woman's family has lived for 23 years has already been purchased by a Cambodian hotelier for $8,000. With the money, they...