Word: relay
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...diving veterans came in force, but the swimmers at Baton Rouge were unfamiliar faces, for now. A big, knobby 16-year-old named Jeffrey Olsen, from Austin, won four individual races and anchored a winning relay team, and well before he was through he was a TV fixture, peering at the world through water-splotched glasses and grinning a big, happy grin. Molly Magill, 14, became another instant darling, winning the 1,500 freestyle and sharing in the 800 freestyle relay victory as her coach lumbered along the poolside yelling encouragement...
More than a decade later, covering the fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces in China, Mydans could use an opposite strategy to relay the pain of an old woman in the ruins of her village. His picture of a Texas town works through addition, building a superabundance of facts; his shot of a bereft woman is a masterpiece of subtraction, paring away everything that is extraneous to one victim's grief...
Grace Clements of Oxford-Cambridge won the Pat Liles Outstanding Performer award for the best individual performance, winning the 400-meter hurdles and the triple jump while coming in third in the long jump and running a stretch of the mile relay...
...liaisons,” Flaherty said, “and have a sense of where the team’s at and relay that to coach. We also figure out how to mediate what coach wants for the team...
...noisy house, she says, “That’s why Harvard should just not look at my grades. They should just say, ‘That’s OK. She’s in.’” And she jokingly asked that FM relay a message to the admissions office: “Maybe you could put at the bottom, ‘Since Rachel has done so much for Dunster House, we should just admit her before putting in any college application.’” But the experience of living...