Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running, just a mile at first. Next she swam, rode a bike, lifted weights. With a time of 2:31:04, eight minutes slower than her 1983 Boston Marathon record, she won the trial, finishing in tears. Says Bob Sevene, her coach mostly in the sense of someone to lean on: "Joan has this tremendous ability to blank out everything at the start of a race-heat, humidity, injury or pain. It's the pure marathoner...
There is, among them, even one old-style, Chariots of Fire amateur, the kind with true-blue attitudes and prosperous parents. John Biglow is a lean, powerful, awesomely fit man of 6 ft. 3 in. and 188 Ibs. who rowed stroke on the Yale crew. After gradation in 1980, he went back to his home in Bellevue, Wash., to talk things over with his father, Attorney Lucius H. Biglow Jr. "I think he was asking, Was rowing a respectable thing to do?" recalls the elder Biglow. His father gave his approval, but that was not all that John Biglow...
...archery gold-John Williams, who coaches the U.S. team, won in 1972-but the fact is that archery is a "that's nice" sport. The shooters look nice in their dress whites, and the medals are nice, but no one gets excited. The result, says McKinney, a small lean man, is that "we're a poor sport." The U.S.O.C. contributes $750 or so a year to each of its top archers, but bows are expensive high-tech affairs with elaborate stabilizers and sophisticated aiming sights, and $750 is the cost of one of them...
...Ferraro will affect not only the woman in the voting booth. It will be equally felt by the man who-today, next month, next year-stares across his desk, dining room table or bed sheets and sees someone as if for the first time. There is no analogue to lean on, no sentimentalization to rely on, nothing Americans can do now but work the matter out for themselves and see where the rejiggled republic stands. The world's most powerful nation may be ready to be led by a woman, and any woman at all may prepare herself...
...Dikko kidnapping, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde made his way past heavy security at State House, in the heart of a fortress of whitewashed stones and manicured lawns in Lagos, to interview Major General Mohammed Buhari. Above the three rows of ribbons on his crisply starched shirt, the lean Nigerian leader was wearing a button with the slogan "War Against Indiscipline." His shoes were as shiny as mirrors, and behind his gold-rimmed glasses, gentle smile and soft voice, he exuded a quiet air of power. Excerpts from the discussion...