Word: canadas
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This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
When Louis Jolliet wrote these prophetic words, after a 1673 voyage on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, the great tallgrass prairie of central North America covered a quarter of a billion acres, a shimmering sea of grass stretching from what is now Indiana to Kansas, from Canada into Texas. But the soil was indeed ideal for corn, and in the three centuries since, that cultivated cousin of the tallgrasses has thrived. Only a few patches of the original tallgrass prairie are left, many of them scattered across the country in such small plots as old cemeteries and railroad rights...
...United States numbers approximately 1 million Ukrainian immigrants, with the heaviest concentration in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia and Chicago. Canada's Ukrainian community, which is about the same size as the United States', wields much greater power in that nation of under 30 million people...
Moving on to more challenging opponents, the U.S. team will put its World title on the line playing in the World Championships in Toronto, Canada (July...
Following its final training in Horbork, NY, the U.S. laxmen will compete with Australia, England and Canada to hang on to its world-class title, which it won so dramatically in 1982, thrashing Australia...