Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weiner has already set up a makeshift office in the Marco Polo Resort on Collins Avenue, where many of Miami Beach's hotels are clustered. Under the banner of a LET'S HELP FLORIDA committee, the campaign to collect signatures will begin in two weeks, with a July 31 deadline...
...mushrooms. A fascination with the faraway and the unfamiliar is especially pronounced among Americans whose ancestors must have had a similar burning inquisitiveness (as well as economic need) to leave the Old World for the New. And the China trade, even more than the old legends of Marco Polo or the march of the conquistadores towards the fabled treasures of the Orient, awakened national curiosity about civilizations that were at once bizarre and incredibly rich. Then, too, in the early 19th century, Cox recounts, groups such as the transcendentalists were inspired by the East. However, the present situation has changed...
Ever since Americans first began visiting the People's Republic of China, the American public has been besieged by first-person accounts of their trips. There is, of course, a long history of such travelers' tales about China, starting with Marco Polo; the West doesn't seem to get tired of the genre, as if it were unable to comprehend the nature of Chinese society except from a personal viewpoint...
Freshman Bobby Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meter freestyle at the 1976 Olympics, however, is one member of the swim team who is interested in water polo but did not join the team this year...
Some prospective water polo players from the swim team have been unable to play this year because of the intensive training regimen instituted by the new swim coach Joe Bernal, Feliciano said...