Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks stuck out of the water and offered me my next cover ... Between floating bodies I reached it, paused for a few more pictures and gathered my guts for the last jump to the beach...
Chances that the letter, or anything else, will change the Soviets' minds before the June 2 deadline for an irrevocable decision seem about as minuscule as the chances of a 31-ft. long jump.* To the contrary, the rumor in both sports and diplomatic circles last week was that the Kremlin would try to organize a rival competition?a sort of Communist Olympics?some time this summer...
...hear them tell it, the climate of relations is at its worst since the most frigid days of the cold war. Nor is the deterioration just a matter of degree, it is a quantum jump downward to a whole new level of nastiness. By Moscow's estimate, the big chill is not merely disagreeable, it is dangerous: World War III, while not necessarily imminent, is more imaginable in the current atmosphere than before. Who do the Soviets blame for this alarming state of affairs? Ronald Reagan, whom they have recently started comparing to Adolf Hitler. The Kremlin leaders...
...simple a problem get out of hand. Here, after all, is the entire challenge: as heads of state and their armies go about their customary business of covert operations, assassinations or gas attacks, a group of young people in shorts would like to show how long they can jump, how far they can toss a hammer, how accurately they can shoot a ball into a basket. Can the mighty nations conspire to let them have their way? Is the technology there, the power? Putting things in terms of bureaucratic efficiency: If governments cannot make a foot race work, what...
After a flurry of pounded fists: "The Olympics have been infected and sabotaged by politics. There's no such thing as an athletic forum, where the best can run, jump and swim against the best, immune from the tensions created by international boundaries and ideologies...