Word: flourish
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More than a century later, Coubertin's image of a sound mind in a sound body continues to flourish. Competing with the millionaire basketball players and logo-laden runners will be fencers and rowers and shooters who have no major endorsements but who do have demanding careers as teachers, doctors, law-enforcement officers and lawyers. While they're not necessarily smarter or faster or more dedicated than other athletes, they can say that they have better balance...
...presidential elections in which retired Lieut. General Alexander Lebed made a surprisingly strong third-place finish and Boris Yeltsin came in first. In Yeltsin's office that day, Lebed, 46, a hero in a dark business suit, perched stiffly on the edge of an ornate chair. With a flourish, Yeltsin signed a decree, tucked it into a green cardboard folder and handed it to the general...
Right about now, KELSEY GRAMMER may be regretting he ever wrote his autobiography, So Far. In it the Frasier star says he'll one day marry Tammi Baliszewski, "the gentle breeze in which I flourish today." Unfortunately, the wedding's off, and the gentle breeze is writing her own gale-force tell-all. Grammer also claims that Cerlette Lamme, whom he gallantly calls "not the neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent...
...sophomore distance freestyle Brian Younger, who placed fourth at the Olympic Trials in the 1,500 meters, the pattern of winning was rarely broken. Since freestyle events begin and conclude every meet, that strength meant the Crimson made waves coming off the block and finished with a flourish...
...corrections department. Last August a drug conspiracy was traced to an inmate at another facility; earlier this month, several guards at a women's prison were dismissed for having sex with inmates. Now legislators are demanding an end to the "culture of complicity" that has been allowed to flourish between prison guards and Illinois' 38,000 inmates. "This is the type of spark that is required to get something going," says Illinois state representative Peter Roskam. "My hunch is there are 49 other [corrections] directors biting their nails today, wondering, 'When is this bombshell going to hit my state...