Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student group formed to aid Black South African schools met for the first time last night.About 20 members of Aid to South African Students (ASAS) heard a description of those schools' inadequacies from Saths Cooper, president of the South African Zanani Movement (SAZM). Cooper said his group represents about three-quarters of Black South African students studying in the United States...
...Heard on the Sidelines: Getman after a questionable call in last Wednesday's opener against MIT: "That's all right. It's early in the season for the referees...
Thorpe won his Olympic decathlon at Stockholm in 1912. "You, sir," declared King Gustav, "are the world's greatest athlete." To which Thorpe replied with touching simplicity, "Thanks, King." Thompson has often heard the description "world's greatest athlete" -- in fact, he has been called the greatest of all time -- but has never seriously proclaimed the title. "It's merely a tag," he says. He does feel akin to Thorpe though. "We're all his descendants -- Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Jenner, me. We've all shared something. It's passed down from one to the next. It's never anyone...
...adjacent arenas, if Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were running for a $1,000 prize, and six monkeys were racing for $10 million, which place do you think would be filled? Honestly, if Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe were around today, I wonder if as many people would have heard of them...
...says Thompson, "and the glory doesn't last. It's all about performing well, and feeling deeply about it." Joyner- Kersee says, "The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport, loving sport, period." Zaharias and Thorpe are around today, honestly, and everyone has heard of them...