Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironman," one freshman from the team is designated to swim in every single event. The lucky swimmer this Saturday was Matt Wrenshall, and the team rallied behind him in his grueling...
...Oscar Valparaiso has a lot on his plate. No sooner did the young political operative put his boss in the Senate than the guy went nuts, leaving Oscar to sink or swim in a world where pretty much everything has gone wrong. Oceans warmed by climate change have risen so fast that the Dutch are waging Cold War II against Uncle Sam. The devaluation of software to zero (the Chinese post it all free on the Net) snapped the economy like a dry twig. Air Force squads shake down drivers on the highways. Roving "radical proles" terrorize the dwindling bourgeoisie...
...inspire his teammates during his first stint with the team in the early 1990s, Frank Cashen explained, "He was supposed to lead us out of the wilderness, take us to the Red Sea and part the waters. It didn't work that way. He said he couldn't swim...
Later, we head back to base camp and go for a swim in the river, where Mittermeier proves that scientists are different from you and me. He remembers to warn me to stay clear of the rocks where electric eels play, but he neglects to mention that piranhas are sharing the water with us. When this finally occurs to him, he adds, "Not to worry. Piranhas only go after open wounds." I hold up my hand with the cut on it. "Oh, yeah," he says...
...apply. That is why black parents, including Espy's, admonish their children that they must be twice as prepared--and twice as honest--as their white counterparts if they want to succeed. And why during the glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts had the salutary effect of encouraging blacks...