Word: poole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swim will start in just a few minutes, as soon as we get the kayaks out of the pool," Mrs. Alice McCabe, the spry, attractive director of Radcliffe swimming, said. A student with neatly combed blond hair and a blond moustache paddled by. "The Harvard-Radcliffe Kayak Club didn't have a home," Mrs. McCabe explained, "so we welcomed them to ours...
...Radcliffe Gym pool, where the kayakists were practicing, a girl named Jennifer was learning "to roll"--the technique by which a kayakist rights himself after tipping over. Jennifer, under the direction of a red-headed boy named Tom, tipped over at will, but had not yet mastered the difficult stroke for completing the roll. The clock above the pool showed 8 p.m., and Jennifer and Tom reluctantly pulled their kayak out of the water...
Three boys, who had been nervously waiting in the Men's locker room, joined the small group of people already at the pool. One of them, wearing a tight white bathing suit, promptly sat down on the edge of the pool and gazed romantically toward the deep...
...second of the new boys pulled in his stomach, put his hands on his hips, and looked back and forth from the clock over the pool to Jennifer, who was swimming laps. When a slim girl in a pink bikini emerged from the Ladies' locker room and slipped quietly into the water, the boy in the white suit abandoned his romantic look and began a fast crawl down the middle of the pool. The third boy, unable to find a secure place for his watch and wallet, held them self-consciously in one hand and, taking off his glasses which...
...deceptively easy to roll," Tom said, fingering the rubber nose clips that hung around his neck. He watched Jennifer in the pool. "But the first time is always hard...