Word: ymca
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Walker became a central figure in black leadership and one of the first black philanthropists, donating funds to build a black YMCA in Indianapolis and restore Frederick Douglass's home in Washington, and helping lead the protest against lynching--she traveled to the White House with other leaders to present a petition to Woodrow Wilson. (He declined to see them.) In 1918 she moved into the neo-Palladian Villa Lewaro, an estate she built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., which was designed by the first registered black architect and situated near the estates of John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould...
...first spotted this kind of convergence in the fall of 1964. On Oct. 7, in the midst of a presidential campaign, a top White House aide was arrested in a YMCA men's room and charged with indecent exposure. Nine days later--one day after the St. Louis Cardinals won a seven-game World Series against the New York Yankees and the Soviets ousted Khrushchev and replaced him with Brezhnev--China exploded its first atomic device. That same day, Harold Wilson became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister in 13 years. That week TIME put four people on its cover...
...swimming and diving coach is Tim D. Murphy, who has coached Olympic swimmers such as Janel Jorgensen, a 1998 silver medallist. Murphy has spent the last 13 years as head coach of the Wilton YMCA Wahoos swim team in Wilton, Conn., and has led the team to several national championships...
...York City suggests some interesting answers. Don't credit welfare reform. The new federal law didn't take effect until 1996; the study shows a decline in birthrates since 1989. Fear of AIDS, however, may be a contributing factor. Charles Taylor, director of teen programs at the Harlem YMCA, who supervises a weekly rap session with teenagers on sex, says that while boys are as swaggering as ever, more girls are insisting on condom use. The disease has also led to more frank talk and pleas for abstinence from parents and school and community-center health classes. Another surprising possibility...
...class meetsonly in the mornings, Kirkland had to locate anafternoon day care center. Every weekday at 8:20am, Kirkland drops Kristine off at the EdgerleyKindergarten and then drives to her first shift atHome Depot. She leaves work to pick up Kristine at11 a.m. and plays with her until the YMCA day carecenter opens at 3 p.m. Kirkland returns to HomeDepot for her second shift which lasts until...