Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only real problem I have encountered was that about three weeks ago it was stolen in broad daylight from outside the Carpenter Center, only to be found a week later outside the YMCA in Cambridge, smashed, scratched and in desperate need of repair. Who had stolen it I don't know, but their motive seems to have been driven by little else other than wreckless joyriding and violence...
...return to California, he began looking more deeply into gun violence by examining the instruments of death themselves. Though he had a childhood familiarity with some guns and had later taught shooting at a ymca summer camp, Wintemute began to approach the subject more seriously. He got a gun seller's license, went to gun shows to learn about the firearms business, joined the National Rifle Association--"to find out what they were up to"--and began target shooting to try to understand the allure of guns. At a recent conference of physicians studying gun violence, he turned...
...that it's very easy to use television as a baby sitter, and we wanted people to think about these things." The first tuneout week unfortunately coincided with both a nasty cold snap and sweeps week but, lo and behold, the local community center offered free ice skating, the ymca set up an evening swim, a nearby museum offered free programs ... "By the end of the week," says Marder, "we had parents telling us they wanted to do this every year...
...people dancing on the counter a couple of nights, and dancing on the tables," reminisced Tommy's owner Mike T. McHale. "We had the whole place doing the YMCA one night. One table in the corner started it and by the second chorus it was the whole place...
McHale says the party-like ambience is intentionally aimed at college students. "It's like the whole atmosphere where people wouldn't be afraid to do something here as oppose to like a restaurant where you wouldn't stand up and do the YMCA," said McHale...