Word: guess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hart says to Johnson as the runner takes the track in his new U.S.A. unitard. "What do you think of it?" Johnson asks Hart. "Well," says the coach, "I think the U.S.A. insignia is too subtle and the Nike swoosh is too bright. But that's the point, I guess." Just then another of Hart's runners, Marlon Ramsey, walks by. "Look, it's Superman," Ramsey says to Johnson, one of his probable partners on the U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team in Atlanta. "But, hey, what happened to your cape...
...deluded by work-free fairy tales, but neither am I dissuaded because they are fairy tales. There is another side to that rainbow. Is it enough for us to prance around a single end with our petty games? Or can we move toward the unprofessional and the unknown? I guess we ll find out at the 25th...
...lack of nerve, I never got to see the Easterner's face when she showed up at the World's Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed. But I can guess what happened. When the now-dry fire fighters served her plate of food, I bet no one informed the snob she wasn't eating anything aquatic. The "hicks" usually let you get a few bites down before revealing the joke...
...been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news lands on the front page: How much are we willing to sacrifice the children of other countries...
...future. "It will be about 50 or 100 years before any differences can be made in this country. I should vote to help the motherland, but I just don't have confidence in the country or the leadership. If I were forced to vote," he concedes, "I guess it would be for Yeltsin, since he's winning anyway...