Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another diver enters the pub with a glazed smile that might be exhaustion or maybe the relief of seeing someone else who knows what's down there. "This is my best friend," says Poirier, hugging Richard Lafreniere, 35. Ordinarily they train to repair battle-damaged ships and clear mines. There is no training for what they're doing...
...excited to read about the Radcliffe tennis club's season-opening victory (Sports, Sept. 24, "Radcliffe Women Play, Win, Make History"). For the last four years, the Harvard Tennis Club has given non-varsity players a chance to train and compete in intercollegiate matches. The emergence of the women's club now provides an additional alternative for women who play tennis at a high level...
...irreducibly human facts of the case, as detailed in Kenneth Starr's report, are liable to be lost as readers weigh competing legal claims or gasp at the long train of sexual detail. Of course, the report tilts heavily toward Monica's side of the tale, the President having declined to discuss the relationship with any specificity--an unaccustomed act of gallantry, perhaps. Even so, we know enough of his role to give this one passage from the report particular poignancy: "Whereas the President testified that 'what began as a friendship came to include [intimate contact],' Ms. Lewinsky explained that...
...beauty and serenity of the place, so at odds with the conditions of her own childhood, and stirred by her meeting with the handsome, fortyish widower who owns it. She assumes, correctly, that she was barred from this paradise by "the old woman," Mrs. Iveson. Pettie begins making daily train trips to spy on the Davenant household and exact revenge...
...want it to go beyond what a lot of community service programs do and really make it part of the community," Lang says. "We want to train communities how to prepare their own kids for the college process...