Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many orators, some of whom sounded as if they meant it. Colorado Senator Gary Hart promised full support of Mondale, who defeated him in a grueling and bitter primary campaign, and Jackson, after losing a string of floor fights over platform planks, made a point of apologizing to any fellow Democrats who might have been offended by his preconvention stridency. More important, he appealed penitently to the Jews who had been especially disturbed by his previous oratory. Said Jackson: "We must turn from finger pointing to clasped hands...
...sublime?in a dive off the 10-meter platform, on the parallel bars. Sometimes it looks dispassionately cruel. Either way the struggle wins the affection of the crowd, which sees in the exercise of discipline a morality play not necessarily related to sports. Throats go dry merely because a fellow human being is doing all that is remotely possible...
...jump pit of Evelyn's team served as their sandbox. There might have been no Carl without Carol. In high school she was a force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where the contestants are allowed to be withdrawn. "I was never a fighter when I was young," he says...
McKinney is not the only one with a shot at the gold in a sport his countrymen forget about between Olympics. Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals...
Defender Bob Lenarduzzi has played more North American Soccer League (NASL) games than anyone else in history, and in his 10 seasons in the league has played all 11 positions on the field. Fellow defender Bruce Wilson has been an NASL All-Star for the past six years, and the coach is also an NASL veteran, having led the Vancouver Whitecaps to the championship...