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First, two Saturdays ago, he won the 100-meter dash. As the aficionados put it, Lewis was fast and Sam Graddy only quick. The time was 9.99, the margin comfortable. Then the long jump, and it could have been mailed in. "My strategy will be the same as always," he announced beforehand, "to pop a very big jump early and make everyone chase after me. If I feel 'on' after my first jump, I might take a second." For a personal Olympic motto he chose: "A gold medal is first. The world record is last." If his priorities...
...last Ashford's position as the world's finest sprinter was confirmed in the 100-meter dash. Since she was twelve, and she is 27 now, none of Ashford's records and all of her dreams have been set at the Olympics. But she has been awakened frequently by nightmares: in 1979 she ran away from the best international 100 and 200 fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned...
...angry bark, it is also frisky as a puppy. Nicholas and his co-stars (all veterans of the Cats cast) strut engagingly through the handsome sets. Stephen Oliver's score drapes cleverly oratorical orchestrations on his plain songs, and the whole thing moves with the brash dash of an undergraduate jape...
...preternatural interposition in the sequence of events." We'll take his word for it. In simpler terms, Americans make stadiums their churches because they trust that therein lies national virtue. Extolling baseball, Albert Spalding, the sporting-goods king, called the game "the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness; American Dash, Discipline, Determination; American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm; American Pluck, Persistency, Performance; American Spirit, Sagacity, Success; American Vim, Vigor, Vitality." Only real piety could inspire such alliteration...
...quizzical expression and a lawyerly bow-tie, Stevens captained a team of politicians and judges at a Washington contract-bridge tournament against several British parliamentarians. Stevens, a life master, plays his cards not too differently from the way he decides cases-"a little on the conservative side but with dash," said one expert observer. The Americans lost the charity contest, but Stevens did pick up more than one trick. After the players were ushered into the game room by a fife-and-drum corps, Stevens joked, "I enjoyed following the pipers and will recommend to my colleagues on the Supreme...