Word: swimmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what it means to see the prostitutes and pimps operate (because it's an easy means of income), illegitimate babies born (many of which die), and to see the children swim in the gullies and play with rats because there is no other place for them to play, and to come home for the evening meal with flies for the main course of the supper. Blacks are continuously and sadistically being attacked by the dogs of the White police department and beaten on the sidewalks in front of their own homes by clubs from the White hands of National...
Harvard's 60 summer high school students "are on the same sink-or-swim basis as the other students--but they swim better," said Adams. "A high school student last year got the highest grade given." The average high school student tends to do better than the average student...
...smokes cigars, insists on using her maiden name, Carolyn Agger, and tools around in her own Rolls-Royce?she seems devoted to her celebrated husband. With no children, the Fortases find ample time for recreation as well as cerebration. During the winter they ski; during the summer they swim. They summer in Westport, Conn., and their permanent home in Georgetown has a swimming pool boasting a bubble top for year-round...
...Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater, later surfaced at the discotheque Cheetah. Compared with this season's crop of moribund Broadway musicals, Hair thrums with vitality. Nonetheless, it is crippled by being a bookless musical and, like a boneless fish, it drifts when it should swim. Director Tom O'Horgan lashes up waves of camouflage, but distraction is no substitute for destination...
...openers, Brown, Cornell and Barnard motioned to stay home altogether. They were the smart ones, for the schools that opted to brave Mother Nature got more than they bargained for. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton swim coach Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick...