Word: ga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of weeks after the trials, news turned sour. The team's freshest ) and most promising woman sprinter, a square-rigged stormer named Angel Myers, from Americus, Ga., who had qualified in ba timlibthree events, was banished for a drug violation. She claimed that tests misread a birth-control drug as a steroid. But she was out, replaced by Butterflyer Janel Jorgensen and Freestyler Jill Sterkel (who thus made her fourth Olympic team...
...sound of American slavery is living very quietly on a dark side street in Brunswick, Ga. And a young black composer named Walter Robinson has come a thousand miles to hear it: tones, overtones, agony and all. Call it gospel, or call it the blues. The sound starts low and shades into the sky, leaving behind an ache or sprig of consolation. "That's the sound I want," he says, as he drives toward his destination...
...Oprah's classics -- like the segment with women who have borne children by their own fathers, in which Oprah interviewed an abusing father from his prison cell and called him "slime." Nor is it a newsmaking event, like Oprah's trip to racially troubled Forsyth County, Ga., where a redneck in the audience calmly explained to the black talk-show host the difference between "blacks" and "niggers" (niggers, it appeared, are blacks who make trouble). Nor is it even one of the titillating women's-magazine subjects that constitute the show's bread and butter: Casanovas and the women...
...Historian Kirk Varnedoe, at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Ga.: "I have a couple of disadvantages speaking to you today. I'm trained as an art historian, not an artist, and the painter Barnett Newman once said that art history is for artists what ornithology is for the birds...
...document on futuristic weapons was aimed at persuading Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and other critics that the ban would apply to intermediaterange weapons that have not been developed...