Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of retired athletes, brought along as "goodwill ambassadors," being in Moscow produced a bittersweet sensation. "The hardest part for me," Gaines admitted, "was walking into the swim stadium for the first time. Immediately, I looked at Lane 4, the lane for the fastest qualifier, and slowly my eye went back and forth, back and forth." Like dreamy children, the swimmers Gaines and Steve Lundquist, the basketball player Ann Meyers, the triple jumper Willie Banks, among others, spoke in favor of peace at an extraordinary press conference whose subjects ranged from a reunion of the Apollo-Soyuz spacemen...
...National Y in Washington, the steep annual fees ($473 to $807) paid by 80% of clients finance vans that ferry in members of less posh local branches. In Virginia, the three Tidewater Ys teach all the fifth-graders of Chesapeake to swim. They also have aquatics classes for the physically impaired and aerobics classes for the mentally handicapped. The fitness programs help cover the cost of such services...
Planning to major in biology at Harvard, Colfax says he also hopes to row lightweight crew. Accordingly, he is learning how to swim this summer. so he can pass the swim test...
...Says David Knox, the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean: "The debt crisis has led a lot of Latin American governments to do some hard thinking about their policies. We think the tide is running in a sensible direction, so we are trying to swim with...
...their what-I-love- about-Shamu testimonials, the onlooker half expects one of them to say, "My whale, I think I'll keep her." But it is a thrill to see a 4,000-lb. killer whale balance a human on its nose, or pirouette on point, or just swim protectively with its new offspring, the 8 1/2-month-old Baby Shamu. Several ^ times a day, a child is selected from the crowd to be kissed by Shamu. At one show, the little girl of the day was asked her name. "Erin." "And where are you from, Erin?" "Holiday...