Word: trained
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Gulf's second claim, that faithful to the "white man's burden" it supports Angolan education, must be understood to mean that it has put aside a little money to help train an elite client class of blacks to do its work. Gulf told the United Nations that it gave $34,965 in 1970 to the Mining Development Fund to train black mining engineers and managers. In addition it donates ten scholarships a year for secondary school and university students...
Precluding an accident. Baughman will be one of the few Harvard swimmers to travel to West Point for the NCAA's from March 23-25. After that he will take a brief rest before he begins to train for the Olympic trials in early August...
While sprinters require ability and only a minimal amount of work, the long distance man must train long hours to strengthen heart and lungs and build endurance. According to Gambril the distance man must work from four to eight years for 10 or 11 months a year to reach peak endurance. He must swim between 1200 and 1500 miles a year, or about 35-50 miles a week...
Figuring a difficulty ratio of about four miles running to every mile of swimming, it is no wonder that Baughman says, "I think we have to train more then any other type of athlete, except somebody said maybe figure skaters...
...case, you won't want to blow the money on the train ride into Boston, because Sugar, even though it's been designed and packaged by a roster of Broadway heavies, is about as weak as this present transition. All involved--Peter Stone on book, Jule Styne on Music. Bob Merrill on lyrics, sets by Jo Mielziner, direction and choreography by Gower Champion--appear to have approached the assignment with the kind of enthusiasm that should be reserved only for musicalizations of Night of the Living Dead. Lyrically, the libretto must have been written with a rhyming dictionary...