Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flew to Japan in July. Jones spent long hours with the President, talking, listening, viewing the U.S. and the world from the finest fuselage aloft. A very practical pol himself, Jones was surprised. During this encounter he found Carter to have a good grasp of the task ahead, to display better instincts about his leadership. Carter seemed to have learned a lot. Concluded Jones: "Jimmy Carter could be a good President these next four years...
Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
...likely that with or without the boycott, the Soviets and their satellites would have put on an overwhleming display of athletic prowess since they prepared their athletes with all the care taken before military adventures. Moreover, with or without the boycott, Soviet citizens would have picked up conflicting signals on relations between the Motherland and the West...
...connects the Joe Louis Arena and the gleaming silos of the Renaissance Center, became a kind of urban village green. As delegates strolled by, hawkers peddled goods ranging from elephant baseball hats to Ronald Reagan dolls. Exotic odors of ethnic cooking wafted through the square, and an $8,000 display of fireworks lit up the night sky on the eve of the convention...
...President was not finished. After the game was over, he insisted on jogging around the parched field for another ten minutes. For a 55-year-old man embarking on a campaign against a 69-year-old challenger, it was quite a competitive display...