Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that average $50 a week. Come mid-December, tens of thousands stream out of the camps and head home for the holidays, jamming bus stations, train platforms and airports to spend a month or so with their loved ones...
Operation Saint Nicholas has recruited veteran Santas to train officers in the niceties of the role, including patience with children, the proper shades of blush and, of course, the art of padding. So, with all those undercover Santas around, Fort Myers residents had better remember to be good, for goodness' sake...
...train outdoors," added Sweetser, "so we get the extra benefit of a nice tan on our backs...
...next destination for the Crimson is San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the squad will train for 10 days following Christmas. The goal of the trip is to get the team in the right physical and mental shape to defend its Ivy League title...
...summer of 1980, his legal aspirations temporarily sidelined, Moore started to train with the Bengals. At first he found pro camp very tough. "The only advantage I had over other people was mental," he says...