Word: swimmer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...performed special acts of valor bore an honorific title: Beloved Woman. Despite such enlightened attitudes, no woman has ever headed the Cherokees, the nation's second-largest tribe (after the Navajo), whose 67,000 members live mainly in Oklahoma. That will change when the present Cherokee chief, Ross Swimmer, is confirmed by the Senate as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His elected tribal deputy, Wilma Mankiller, 40, will then become the Cherokee Nation's first female leader...
...Crimson then faced Columbia, whom they devastated 205-92, managing to win 13-of-15 events. It was also Bassi’s first meet as a Harvard swimmer...
...Beyer, a shy 18-year-old swimmer from Tucson, Ariz., who had arrived just 10 weeks earlier, the weight of history was overwhelming. After 9/11, the cadets were deluged with honors--praise, medallions and miles of thanks from yellow-ribbon America--that most didn't think they had earned, at least not yet. "People really loved to tell us that we're great Americans," she recalls, "but I really didn't think we were all that great. We're just college kids." Strangers started coming up to her on the street when she was in uniform, thanking her for what...
...were on the fence even in the slightest, if you weren't 100% sure you wanted to be in this fight, you shouldn't be here at all. Beyer didn't know those cadets or whether they knew her or whether they saw her as a laid-back swimmer type without a soldier's steel. Still, their comments cut straight through her and destroyed the frail truce she had made with West Point. "I just shut up," she says. "But I was so angry. 'What the hell am I doing here?' I asked myself. The attitude was, If you didn...
Current lightweight captain and Harvard senior Haas was a swimmer. Fellow senior Kummer was a hayseed from northern Kentucky looking for a sport to call his own. Sophomore Luff hailed from Batesville, Indiana, went to St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, and was kept out of Ohio sports by a law prohibiting out-of-state residents from participating in school athletic programs...