Word: pained
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first meet of the season, a dual meet against UMass, the fears returned. Rogers started out at a blistering half-mile; by the second mile she was running in tremendous pain. She somehow crossed the finish line, slumped to the ground gasping for air (Rogers suffers from occasional attacks of asthma). "I thought the whole season would be this way--hardly an auspicious beginning. Here I was supposed to be their inspiring leader...
...would a varsity team elect a captain who doesn't like to win? The answer is simple: In a sport that demands tremendous self-discipline, sacrifice, time, toughness, and a day-to-day confrontation with pain, Rogers embodies the qualities of a team player. She consistently performs best in relay races, or cross-country meets that need a good Rogers performance to produce a team victory...
...fortunes change, of course, money does that, you know, even to the best of us. Joe is the best of us and our worst, too. He is loving, coming with passion in short, artful gasps. He is cruel, rearing back, throwing pain into the wind, looking away. He is single, divorced and divorced and divorced, alone and lonely, separate...
...seduces him each night. The Lake is a world of dreams, of gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...
After graduation, Nguyen faces medical school ("hope-fully") and probably more financial aid. And he says although "it's a pain to apply for financial aid every year, it's worth...