Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty, crop-haired blonde had already qualified for the U.S. Olympic swimming team (100-meter free style and 400-meter relay) and set an American 100-meter mark (1:04.6) in the process. Shelley Mann of Washington, D.C.'s Walter Reed Swim Club should have been riding high, relaxed and easy. "But look at her," said her young (24) coach, Stan Tinkham (TIME, April 18, 1955). "You can almost see the adrenaline pumping through her. She'll swim each race a hundred times before she goes into the pool. Maybe that...
...Melbourne-bound squad knows it is in for some rugged training. "Everyone agrees that the way to train swimmers is to keep sending them over long distances," says Coach Tinkham, "so I go about it just the opposite. At Walter Reed [the U.S. Army Hospital in Washington] we swim sprints all the time. That way every swimmer gets her second wind every practice. Of course it's harder work, but it isn't as boring, and it keeps their minds more alert. I guess they hit three or four good peaks a year and then hold them...
...Strain. The tough training routine will be no strain for Shelley. "I have to go all out in every practice," says she. "I can't stand the idea of loafing. It's the only way I can swim without consciously getting tired. I know that I'll be helped in whatever I do by what I've learned from swimming: that there's no reason why I can't do what I want to do and also be good...
...smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen use up-to-date nylon nets and power their junks with gasoline engines. "The fish in Hong Kong are wise," explained one; "as soon as they see our string nets, they swim away...
...honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German government, he made a characteristically Delphic response: "You want me to plunge headlong into the sea before I learn to swim." Nor was Nehru prepared to give any assurance that India would not some day recognize Communist East Germany, "I do not know what future developments will bring," said...