Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration. Reporters were delighted that the new press secretary, Jerry terHorst, was not afraid to say, as his predecessors had often been, "I don't know, I didn't ask the President," photographers were startled to be allowed to snap the President's morning swim...
Physically, at least, Ford seems able to handle the arduous demands of the presidency. At 61, he weighs 203, only four pounds over his football-playing weight; he stays in shape by two daily 20-minute swims and occasional rounds of golf (scoring in the 90s). He limits lunch to a salad or cottage cheese with ketchup, though he occasionally succumbs to ice cream. No teetotaler, he likes to polish off a hard day's politicking with two or three dry martinis with a pair of olives in each. Ford's colleagues are astounded by his stamina. He has been...
...average of 14 days before the expected onset of menstruation. Her ovaries then expel one or more egg cells, ripe for fertilization. An individual egg (ovum) is drawn into the fallopian tube (oviduct) to begin a four-day journey toward the uterus. After intercourse, the husband's spermatozoa swim upstream through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, and if one sperm succeeds in penetrating an ovum, conception has occurred. The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining for the remainder of the nine months' gestation...
...days before, he had stood fascinated on the lush grounds of the Black Sea dacha of Leonid Brezhnev as the Soviet Communist chief demonstrated the collapsible glass wall around his Olympic-sized swimming pool, which Kissinger was repeatedly asked to swim in. Kissinger has listened to Brezhnev "order" him to Siberia for failing to yield enough in negotiations. His comeback: "I should be a member of the Politburo since I meet with you guys so much." Kissinger came away from a negotiating session with the Soviets and said, "I would do anything for caviar -and I may have...
...began doing brief commentaries in which he attacked the national press for its Watergate coverage. KTEW news is now first in Tulsa. A recent joke tells of a reporter observing Richard Nixon walking on water. The supposed headline in the next edition of the Washington Post: NIXON CAN'T SWIM...