Word: swimming
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...height of his powers, when he was stricken with polio and became a paraplegic. He had been an athlete, a man who had loved to swim and sail, to play tennis and golf, to run in the woods and ride horseback in the fields. Determined to overcome his disability, he devoted seven years of his life to grueling physical therapy. In 1928, however, when he accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, he understood that victory would bring an end to his daily therapy, that he would never walk under his own power again. For the remainder...
...reason parents give for home schooling is dissatisfaction with public schools, where guns, drugs, and peer pressure leave them feeling vulnerable. This new generation of home-schooling families doesn't necessarily believe that public schools are unholy. And many want their children's character toughened by swim meets and coaches' whistles and Friday-night football games...
...aiming to make the Charles clean enough to swim...
...have a lot of energy and I like to wake up early, like 6:30. I'm very regimented about sleep....I've never pulled an all-nighter. I just can't. I like working out for two hours. I stretch out for an hour. I swim. I take a walk. It's a very balanced workout. I feel healthy and it's part of my ideal world...
Todd E. Plants '01 said a cornerstone of his campaign and that of his running mate Benjamin E. Wikler '03 is ending the "sink or swim" method of advising at Harvard...