Word: holland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt about it. Florence Griffith Joyner is the First Lady of track and field. By winning three gold medals and one silver, Flo-Jo surpassed the 28- year-old record of Wilma Rudolph and nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated...
...salute from the fort guarding the main harbor of the Dutch West Indian island of St. Eustatius. Legitimizing the rebels with this ritual act was particularly galling because the Caribbean port was used, despite repeated British protests, to supply American troops with gunpowder and shot. St. Eustatius was Holland's "Golden Rock," a neutral speck devoted entirely to commerce...
...enjoying the field-hockey game as much as they are the bright afternoon. "They don't really know very much about the game," notes Arpad von Bone, a Dutch trainer intensely scrutinizing penalty corners. "But they have a delegation of children here to raise flags for every country. For Holland, they even had tulips! It's fantastic!" True amateurs...
...first hint that something was amiss came last April, when harbor seals along the coast of northern Europe began showing symptoms of a mysterious viral infection. Before long, dead or dying seals were washing up on the shores of Britain, Holland and West Germany. To date, 11,000 seals have died, including an estimated 70% of the seal population in parts of the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts...
...Holland St., Davis Square, Cambridge...