Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University maintains that the difficulties of minority faculty recruitment stem from the small pool of minority graduate students. In response, it has made substantial efforts to increase minority recruitment in the Graudate School of Arts and Sciences. Many who have been critical of the University's efforts to recruit minority faculty question whether such efforts amount to "too little, too late...
...just as important, he had the proper training facilities. There was a swimming pool his father could throw him into. Instead of having his parents tell him to go outside and play in the streets where drugs and other troubles lurk, he had a swimming pool in which to train...
...begins hauling herself up and down Lane 1 again, this time using hand paddles to build arm strength, with a small inner tube around her ankles, immobilizing her legs and increasing drag. At 8:30 a.m. she will hoist herself out of the pool, wave to her mother Barbara, towel off and ride with Barbara back to their home in Placentia, half an hour away. (Her father Paul, a veterinarian, does the 5 a.m. run to the Fullerton pool.) Later, after an hour in the weight room, she will return to the pool and chug through more distance sets until...
...consider throwing her a life preserver -- and by the way she surges ahead at odd moments during her races by taking several consecutive strokes without breathing, then hits the finish line after six or eight strokes in no-breath hyperdrive. "I don't really have a breathing pattern," this pool hustler apologizes, sandbagging with the smallest of grins...
...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...