Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 978 members of the Class of 2000 were selected in December from the early applicant pool of about 3,000, less than 7 percent of applicants from the regular pool were accepted...
...grown woman, I would go to work all day just like my father. I was not quite sure exactly what happened at work, but I knew exactly why I wanted to be there. My mother worked, too, but in the kitchen, in the laundry room, in the car pool line and on the phone. She did the same things over and over again each day. And even though she seemed to genuinely enjoy her work, I couldn't understand her satisfaction with writing "Homemaker" under the category for "Occupation" on my school health forms...
...stroke hasn't changed. Earlier, in the cool of the morning at the U.S.C. pool, visual memory kicked in, and it was easy to tell which of the swimmers churning 50-m lengths at three-quarter speed was Evans. But she's taller now by a couple of inches--that was clear as she eased out of the pool--and heavier by nearly 20 lbs. of hydrodynamic muscle. This is a change in body mass from waiflike to slim, but it explains why Evans has competed unsuccessfully for so many years against an elusive sprite named Janet...
...spoon breakfasts. But in mid-December, not quite three months before the U.S. team-selection trials, she tore ligaments in her left foot in a jogging accident. For several weeks she couldn't kick and had to train with her arms alone. Pushing off from the end of the pool when starting and turning still hurt by the time of the trials in mid-March. "But it was O.K.," she says. "I could swim...
...Atlanta meet, he is the merry prankster, full of jokes and wisecracks. When his Nike representative's cell phone beeps, Bubka snatches it up and informs the caller that the official is too tied up with girls to talk. While perusing socks at Macy's, he seizes a pool cue from a mannequin and declares, "This is my new pole!" Then he giggles over the fact that he has accidentally wandered into the wrong dressing room...