Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors were mildly surprised at the candor of their hosts. Officials freely admit, for example, that bribery occurs within the Vietnamese bureaucracy, though they insist that corruption is "not common." In fact, it is very common indeed. An exit visa can be bought with $2,000 in gold, and the cost of other services varies accordingly...
...opens a discussion with three analysts of the latest trends in the market and the financial world. Finally, the main guest?usually a member of the Administration or the business establishment?is brought in for a freewheeling Q and A on subjects that can range from stocks to the gold market and prospects for inflation and energy...
...become as regular as the clockwork of Olympic swimming judges. Every four years, a collection of adolescent American girls put aside their good-luck Teddy bears, jumped into the water and swam away with a gaggle of gold medals. No sooner had 500 journalists written stories beginning "Thank heaven for little girls . . ." than the entire U.S. women's swimming team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals...
Then came Montreal. A powerful East German team?older, bigger, stronger, better trained?swamped all comers, winning eleven of 13 events. U.S. swimmers managed to take only a single gold medal, the 400-meter freestyle relay. The defeat was so total, the humiliation so painful, that coaches hinted darkly of the victors' using illegal drugs during training, and some swimmers made unsportsmanlike cracks about the heavily muscled East German women...
Obviously not. Churning through the pool built by Adolf Hitler for the 1936 Olympics, Caulkins won five gold medals and broke four world records in the process. Her most dramatic victory came in the 400-meter medley over former Record Holder Ulrike Tauber, 20, who won the gold medal in Montreal. The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter...