Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courts. There will be 48 outdoor and two indoor courts and 106 plush town houses at Lakeway World of Tennis, now abuilding near Austin, Texas. When not actually playing, Lakeway residents can watch closed-circuit television broadcasts of instructional films and professional matches. Or swim in a huge pool shaped like a tennis racket with strings painted across the bottom and a handle painted on the concrete deck...
Some athletes show capitalist cunning in making the most of the bonus system. Roland Matthes, world record holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, has a habit of setting new records by small margins. When somebody else swims faster, he gets another chance to top the time and earn another premium. Frank Wiegand, former world record holder for the 400-meter freestyle, used to get a bonus of 100 marks ($31?"every 'time he"set a personal record with his army sports club. He proceeded to swim various distances and strokes, each time setting his own record...
...issues has taken representatives of 27 nations, including the U.S.'s Christian A. Herter Jr. and Shirley Temple Black, two years of hard work. After one session devoted to defining the wording of propositions (what does "environment" really mean?) a delegate sighed, "It's like trying to swim in tapioca...
...about the millions of women excluded from the dictionary, women whose lives may have meaning for our own, though they have fallen short of "greatness"--maybe they are our own ancestors, our school teachers, women who have taught us to play the piano, to read Russian or to swim. These notable women are as much a part of our lives as are our heroines, and until we understand them as well as the dictionary characters, we cannot call ourselves sisters...
...lawbooks. Can you imagine that? I asked the guard what was going on. He said, 'They've got to go.' I told him, 'Look, friend, you touch those books and we'll file a court case so fast it'll make your head swim.'" The lawbooks stayed...