Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the disaster in Montreal, U.S. coaches revised their training techniques, incorporating East German innovations like relying primarily on endurance training and weight lifting...
...training, powerful. She learned to swim at four and, with the prodding of an older brother and sister (Amy, 17, played on the U.S. women's water polo team that gave an exhibition in Berlin), she began to swim seriously as an eight-year-old. At twelve she started weight training, and shortly thereafter settled into a grueling six-day-a-week regimen...
...rose at 5 a.m. in order to squeeze in five hours?eight to ten miles?in the water each day, supplemented by thrice-weekly workouts in the weight room. She even turned a bad break into a boon. Last fall she fractured her right leg playing on a swing. Outfitted with a fiber-glass cast, she went back into the water. Unable to use her legs, she swam for six weeks using just her arms and shoulders; the strength gained from hauling a useless leg through lap after lap resulted in dramatically faster times in the butterfly and breast stroke...
...list of papabili. For instance, Florence's Giovanni Benelli, 57, a kingmaker and a possible candidate himself, was heard by a Vatican insider to say he favors Albino Luciani, 65, of Venice, particularly because of their shared aversion to Communism. Carlo Confalonieri, who carries much weight among Italians, although he is too old to vote, agreed. Suddenly Luciani, heretofore seen as a remote compromise candidate, shot up on the lists...
Though the U.S. has the second largest national bloc, its nine Cardinals are not expected to unite behind a single candidate or carry much collective weight. One of the nine,* John Wright, conservative prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, is recovering from surgery in Massachusetts and unable to attend. Other groupings: Latin America (including Puerto Rico), 20; Africa, twelve; Asia, eleven...