Word: juggernauts
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...Galina Stepanskaya, 27, a last-minute addition to the Soviet speed skating team, took the 1,500-meter race. The favored figure-skating duo, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, though performing slightly off their usually impeccable form, easily won the gold medal. Also, the juggernaut Russian hockey team beat but did not embarrass a youthful American squad...
...decisive victories put the matmen in the right frame of mind to square off with the Hofstra wrestling juggernaut. After a grinding schedule that included a 24-20 win over nationally ranked Michigan, the Flying Dutchmen, in the words of Tom Bixby, "wanted someone to beat on." The Crimson proved handy whipping boys but after their two convincing wins the 6-6 loss was not too bitter a pill to swallow...
...easiest. Each Rotel accommodates 39 passengers, a driver-mechanic-cook and a tour guide. By day the group rides conventionally in the bus, with the usual hurried stops for sightseeing and picture taking. In the evening the juggernaut pulls into a camping ground or stops at a village fountain, and the action shifts to the 40-ft. trailer hitched to the rear. It becomes an outdoor kitchen, dining area, dressing room and dormitory. After supper the tourists repair to the sleeping quarters: a morguelike arrangement of 3-ft-wide bunks stacked three high and 13 across, each with a single...
...Chicago, Chicago!" As 35,000 spectators pick up the chant, seven young men amble onstage to join the Beach Boys for a socko finale. They are the group known as Chicago. With five guitarists, two drummers and a three-piece brass section wailing, the combined bands form a rock juggernaut that quickly transforms the stadium into an enormous, throbbing, outdoor discotheque. The crowd has been on its feet for most of the six-hour concert...
...Communists; that government would then arrange what would amount to a negotiated surrender to the Communists. No specific terms were spelled out, but Hanoi and the Provisional Revolutionary Government made it clear that Saigon had at most a few days to take decisive action. After that, the encircling juggernaut would spring into action...