Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motorcycle for some straight talk to children about sexual abuse. "Somebody touching your private parts," he urges, "is a secret you don't keep!" Esther Williams, the aquatic screen star from the 1940s and '50s, dives back into the pool to show parents how to teach their infants to swim...
When one victim, John, 30, arrived from Uganda in poor physical condition, weighing less than 80 lbs., the Toronto center arranged medical and psychiatric help. A nutritionist taught him and his family how to adapt to new foods. To rebuild his strength, one volunteer taught him to swim and got him access to a private pool. Cowgill, who urged John to call any time he needed to talk, got him a job as a telephone installer, the trade he practiced back home. "A job is so central to these survivors," she says, "because it gives meaning to their lives...
Equally important elements in the women's victory were the sacrifices made by many of Harvard's swimmers, who selflessly decided to to forego their best events and swim in some of their weaker events so that the team's talent would be events distributed...
...probably better than 75 percent of the teams we swim against in the Ivy League." Oberg said...
Fish gotta swim, Birdy gotta fly, and his best friend Al gotta love this weirdo--if not till he die, then at least until he is lured out of the catatonic state in which Alan Parker's delirious and challenging movie discovers...