Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, you may not believe this, but in some ways I'm a loner. I'm a loner particularly when things go bad. I retreat within myself. Well, one of my problems this campaign has been that I have been in trouble, and I've become more and more of a loner. Even after all my years in public life, I don't really feel I understand the press. Sometimes I think if I make myself too available, you fellows will think I'm trying to do a snow job. This surprises you, doesn...
...Fourth Commando standard bears the red and green of the Legion. At inspections, Steiner often gets his troops' attention by firing off a few rounds from his Browning, then lectures them, his walking stick under one arm. "You are not Legionnaires," he will rant after a particularly bad showing. "You are not men." He has demoted at least one captain to private, but has also been known to pick a good man from the ranks and make him an officer. When he recently elevated a private to 2nd lieutenant, one of his officers complained: "My dear chap...
...explained that the black stockings represented poverty; the black fists meant black power and black unity. Said Smith: "We are black and proud to be black. White America will say 'an American won,' not 'a black American won.' If it had been something bad, they would have said 'a Negro.' " Added Carlos, somewhat disjointedly: "White people seem to think we're animals. I want people to know we're not animals, not inferior animals, like cats and rats. They think we're some sort of show horse. They think...
...might have ended the incident. But a month before the games opened, crusty, old Avery Brundage, 81, perennial chairman of the I.O.C., had warned all competitors that no political demonstrations would be permitted. That challenge helped guarantee the trouble that came, and the I.O.C. bullheadedly proceeded to make a bad scene worse. Unless U.S. officials actually punished Smith and Carlos, the I.O.C. threatened to expel the whole U.S. team from the Olympics. Reluctantly, the U.S. committee suspended the two athletes from the team and ordered them to leave the American quarters at the Olympic Village...
...Tokyo, Oerter had more than a bad neck to bother him; he was hemorrhaging from a ripped rib cartilage, and still he set an Olympic mark of 200 ft. 1½ in. In Mexico City, he slipped in the rain-soaked discus ring and tore a thigh muscle. Relaxants and ice treatments numbed the pain for the finals, and on his third toss he won his fourth gold medal. Oerter immediately began thinking ahead to Munich in 1972-and the possibility of a fifth title. "I think I can continue to improve until...