Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard rink v. $300,000 for artificial ice. Skates bite easily into the surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick or you'll lose your balance. I would advise anyone to train on it. You'll feel like you've been shot from a cannon when you come back...
...Harvard Student Agency also employs the concept of matching employer with student, Gibson said, but the SEO does not now plan to train students and then guarantee the quality of their work, as HSA does...
Better Wrecked than Crashed. By all indications, there are only small numbers of people whose fear of flying is so phobic that they find it all but impossible to get into a plane. But they have little trouble recognizing one another, if only because they are all inveterate train and boat travelers. When Composer Andre Previn and his wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting...
Sheer Will Power. Top Manhattan Model Peggy Moffitt first flew at the age of seven, and used to commute to California by plane; now she travels only by train. Why the changeover? "Nothing dramatic," she says, "I just got married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying...
Like you can a freight train...