Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straw skimmers sported by the French, though the Australians must have been sweating under their dry-as-a-bone cattleman coats. A few lampshade headdresses competed with several styles of burnooses. But all the world's colors mixed together looked muted next to the wondrous columns of gold and the silky rainbow ranks of Koreans...
...said Evelyn Ashford, who was fifth in the 100 meters at that age twelve years ago. "I've come a long way. I've been blessed." She was carrying the U.S. flag, and it made her feel strong. "It's a rush," she said. Ashford won the sprinter's gold in 1984, but she was expected to and scarcely enjoyed it. No one imagines she will do it this time, and she is jubilant at the thought. "No matter what happens, I will have finally had the opportunity in my lifetime to compete against the whole world. If you only...
After Hurricane Gilbert finished howling and hammering Jamaica last Monday, the lovely green-and-gold island had been transformed into a strew of twisted, tilted, ripped and battered debris. Kingston and outlying areas alike were an immense litter of downed trees, broken utility poles, tangles of electrical wires, a vista of demolished houses and blown tin roofs. The more the stunned Jamaicans meandered among the ruins, the worse things looked. Of the 2 1/2 million inhabitants, 500,000 were suddenly homeless; four-fifths of the nation's homes had been damaged or destroyed. Obstructions blocked and sealed off streets...
This year the rivals may well vie for dominance in table tennis and baseball. But the focus of their feud will come in the Japanese sport of judo, where Korean and Japanese judoka should fight it out for the gold in three events. One Japanese, Shinji Hosokawa, came out of retirement specifically to face his Korean nemesis, Kim Jae Yup. To make matters even more interesting, the largest group of foreigners at the Games is, of course, from Japan -- eager, no doubt, to see how often Nippon can score an ippon...
...months, their efforts began to pay off: slowly, breathtakingly, the gilded remains of a Moche warrior-priest began to emerge. The ancient form, surrounded by an array of what appeared to be family members and retainers, was clothed in 13 layers of funeral shrouds interspersed with exquisite gold and silver objects. Among them were a solid-gold crown, a gold warrior's shield and a rare symbol of the warrior-priest's high station in life, a ceremonial gold rattle. Exulted Walter Alva, the Peruvian archaeologist who led the National Geographic Society-backed expedition: "These are treasures that belong...