Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band with a jazz influence, will release a national album in two weeks on Epic records, said Adam Sexton '86, one of the Leverett House proctors who helped bring the local Boston band to campus. Tonight's show will serve as a warm-up for the band's tour this fall...
...answer lies on red clay courts far from Wimbledon or Flushing, where on summer mornings teenagers meet to work on their strokes and serves. They dress in fashionable warm-up outfits or immaculate whites adorned with well-known logos and swing imported Volkl, Kneissel or Belgian "Snauwaert" carbon racquets. Hovering nearby, track-suited trainers murmur advice. The days are a regimen of practice matches, endurance training and chalkboard strategy sessions, followed by evening shape-ups with sports psychologists...
...this level, perks and luxuries appear. Racquets, shoes and warm-up gear are supplied by Western equipment sponsors. Conflicts with academics are nonexistent: players attend a "sports school." It requires half the usual number of classroom hours and often excuses students for training or tournaments. A personal coach works out an individual schedule with hours of practice, calisthenics, lessons and perhaps a set or two with fellow trainees. All this is followed by sessions to review videotapes of each day's performance and plot strategy for matches...
...afford it. He said that although the store did not officially open until 6:30 a.m., "they'd let you in at 6 a.m. if you want to sit down." Homeless people who had been turned away from packed emergency shelters, and had spent the night walking to keep warm, gratefully...
Despite that lofty feat, last week's flight was only a warm-up. In September, Rutan and Yeager, an experienced pilot and design engineer, will try to shatter the open course record of 12,532 miles by flying Voyager on a twelve-day, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world...