Word: golds
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...courses, even before the Union was shut down for remodeling, the administration had attacked the Major's ideal of community. The Major, Who in 1901 donated the funds to build and furnish the Union, sought to construct a building where all the undergraduates, many of whom could not afford "Gold Coast" housing, could spend their days. He wanted them to have a club of their own, a non-exclusive haven designed for all students, rich and poor. In the early 1930s, the selective house system was created, and the Union was relegated to serve as the first-year dinning hall...
...until now, the whole Jones operation always had a burlesque quality to it; however plausible her charges that then Governor Clinton tried to seduce her in an Arkansas hotel room, her affiliation with avowed Clinton haters helped the White House dismiss her crudely as just another book-deal-hungry gold digger. The catastrophe for the White House last week was that all the charges that were manageable when they were separate had suddenly become one scandal, indivisible. When Monica Lewinsky, subpoenaed to testify in the Jones case, whispered to Linda Tripp that Clinton had urged her to deny the affair...
Gordeeva was but 11, a slip of a girl, when she and fellow Muscovite Sergei Grinkov first skated together. They would swoon their way to four world championships and take Olympic gold in 1988 and again...
...wasn't a good time at all, she says. "It was horrible." She was depressed, confused and frightened. Barely out of puberty, "I had a gold medal. Millions. Too much too soon." She didn't have to work another day in her life, and that was part of the problem. If she didn't skate, which suddenly was the most awkward thing in the world, "then what am I supposed...
...angst and tension--as well as grit and struggle and nobility of spirit--was obliged to turn to sports. And turn we did, with our hearts and souls. In the town of Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans who, in their enthusiasm, have taken to firing flare guns into the field...