Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfair to compare Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens. As a world-class competitor in the 1930s, I know that today's tracks are faster, shoes are better and training methods superior. I have seen both Lewis and Owens in action, and would say that they would be dead even in the sprints. Lewis might rate a slight edge in the long jump...
...Texas Monthly forecast could easily turn out to be dead on the money, for to invite world attention is to endure meticulous investigation. In the face of it, Dallas is, as a Texan might say, as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs...
...surprise heroes of the team were two dead-eye outside shooters. Chris Mullin, a senior at St. John's University in New York, contributed 20 points in the semifinal. Steve Alford, a sophomore on Knight's Indiana squad whose selection initially caused controversy, led the team with 18 points against France, and again with 17 against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time...
...tuck, which had given her trouble before, had a chance to win the gold with a superlative score on her tenth and last dive. ("Divin' is just landin' on your head ten times out of ten," she had said after the preliminary round, in her husky, Dead End Kid's voice.) She stood there on the 3-meter board, hands on hips, gathering herself. Then she marched sturdily to the end of the board, turned, stood motionless and threw a back 2½ that missed high excellence by an ounce or two of rebounding water. Bernier...
...once an elegy, a work of art criticism (for no painting on the walls is there by accident) and an inspired essay of social observation. It begins what Watteau would have done with his maturity. But a few months later his lungs were gone, and he was dead. -By Robert Hughes