Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Aaron's dogged determination to lose weight was cloaked by his intense training regime. No one though it was strange when he began adding another hour or two to his already rigorous two-and-a-half hour swim practices. He managed to persuade his coach that, after his most important meets were over, he would regain the weight he had lost...
...reached college that it sunk in for me that Aaron was suffering from an eating disorder. It was only then that I found out the "true" story, through a friend--that Aaron's' bewildered parents had quietly slipped him into therapy, that he'd been kicked off the swim team until he gained the lost weight back, an that he spend a month with the threat of hospitalization over his head. He never the years that followed. but then, why should he have? I had female friends in high school with eating disorders that were tactfully even brought up, even...
...really displeased with the article you printed on March 17, 1994 on the season of the women's swim team. There were numerous mistakes--Katie Liu is a freshman, not a sophomore. And the quote by Hillary Grubb was wrong since Carrie didn't get hit by a truck...it was Montana Miller...
Remember the old cliche: good things come in small packages? This seasons the cliche became a reality for the women's swim team...
...give a B+, I feel the student has done a tremendous amount of work," says Carol R. Saivetz. "It's not a slouchy grade by a long shot." Saivetz's attitude is common among graders. Threatened by accusations of grade inflation, tutors and TF's swim in aggressive verbal circles like sharks tasting blood in the water. Maxine Rodburg, preceptor in expository writing, sounds ready to bite. "In my class, people wouldn't see B+ as the average grade. I don't give them lightly." She adds, perhaps unnecessarily, "I'm not naive...