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Word: grecos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time national Greco Roman and freestyle wrestling champion: tunner up in the 1981 Greco-Roman world championships: *alist for the United states 1984 Olympic wrestling team sounds like tun right...

Author: By Chris Georges, | Title: Jeff Clark | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...example in addition to his national championships. Clark was the favorite last summer to make first team of the U.S. Olympic squad at 114 1bs. in Greco Roman wrestling Although he was upset in the Olympic trails and ended up fourth on the ladder, he had twice pinned the U.S. wrestler who went on to take a silver medal in the Olympics...

Author: By Chris Georges, | Title: Jeff Clark | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

Clark competed at 114-lb. on route to the national freestyle and Greco-Rp,am championships before coming to Harvard...

Author: By Chris Georges, | Title: Wallace Advances at Nationals; Clark, Bausano 1st Round Losers | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

...home champ is Leta Powers, whose nails are polished, striped with silver and pierced with little gold circles and charms. Leta works as a Goddess, which means she is a cocktail waitress at Caesars Palace, a hotel and casino organized around a spurious Greco-Roman theme. Locally, the Goddesses are dubbed coneheads, after the shape of the false hairpiece that is part of the costume. Unchanged since the hotel opened in 1966, the uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...terms of the Southland (7-Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Last U.S. Victory Lap | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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