Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone has heard endless clash-of-cultures tales involving summer folks who invade rural enclaves like Nantucket and Maine. Newly minted ruburbanites get to be treated like interlopers the whole year round. When one commuter stood waiting alone for the last morning train, a dog-walking native asked, "Train late?" "Yes," replied the commuter, thinking he was finally being accepted. "Good," said the native. "Maybe you'll go back where you came from." Sometimes, though, there will be touching signs of grudging welcome. A doorbell will ring, but no one will be there when it is answered. Instead, paper...
...victory gave the Crimson eight a free trip to the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in London, but half of the boat, along with Coach Harry Parker, opted to stay home and train for the national team. The others rowed as a four at Henley, falling in the semifinals of their event...
There has been an increase in incidents of gang rape, particularly on college campuses. Nine Ohio State athletes were called before a Columbus grand jury last April to testify about an alleged "rape train" that occurred in February in a dormitory; the victim, the daughter of a minister, never returned to school. At Duke University last year, Beta Phi Zeta was dissolved following a university investigation of an alleged gang rape at the fraternity house...
...calling attention to our heritage and by helping to train a cadre of experts, HABS, along with a companion project called the Historic American Engineering Record, begun in 1969, has been instrumental in changing preservation from the concern of the proverbial little old ladies in tennis shoes to a powerful citizens movement. This movement recognizes that there are no more frontiers in America and that people can no longer "Go west" to escape our chaotic urban environment. Rather, we must bring some order, stability and livability to the urban sprawl. We need urban conservation as much as we need...
...crew is also in superb trim. Once better known for hoisting pints than hoisting sails, the Australians are up at 5:50 each morning for an hour of calisthenics and road work. "The whole thing has become deadly, deadly, deadly serious," says Australia II Executive Director Warren Jones. "We train like commandos." The eleven-man crew enjoys impressive backup support. As Australia II was maneuvering before the start of a race last week, its carbon fiber boom buckled, making a forfeit seem probable. But its tender came alongside, and within ten minutes a $9,000 aluminum boom was in place...