Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Appropriately, he starts at the beginning, in 1932 and the State Senate campaign of John Cotter. Cotter--and Sutton--lost that first campaign, but Sutton still has fond memories of the man he followed in politics; he describes Cotter as "a gas meter reader, who sold cars--a neighborhood kid with an exceptionally fine personality--one of the most most honest people I've ever been associated with in politics...
...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 it in the final with a time of 21.34 seconds. When she saw her time, Florence kneeled...
...anabolic steroids and by a rampant suspicion that Johnson's miscalculation was not in usage but in dosage. The Jamaican-born Canadian with fast feet and a slow tongue muscled himself up to a point where he could hoist an entire country onto the gold-medal platform. His 100-meter dash was a sensation. Then, when he let Canada down, it disowned him entirely. Unreserved witnesses stirred by his false accomplishment took precautions never to be so gullible again. From then on, the cheering for the innocent or guilty became just a little careful and not a little hollow...
...basement of Seoul's track-and-field stadium. There, on Sept. 24, a smallish man with a fabulously muscled body and rage-filled eyes had to perform the indignity of champions. A master of explosive, almost inexplicable starts, he had already propelled his body down the 100-meter track faster than anyone before. Now his legs had ceased churning, he had relinquished the flag of his adopted Canada, which he had waved around the stadium, and the applause for the seemingly guileless sprinter who had dethroned the all-too-sleek Carl Lewis had died. Only a urine sample stood between...
Part of the reason is that disqualifications have primarily been confined to other, less popular sports -- especially weight lifting and field events, like the hammer throw and shot put. But much of the shock is a by-product of the fascination with the 100-meter dash. That most elemental, primordial event is run, at least in the mind, by almost every child on earth, and its Olympic champion occupies a place of honor as the fastest man alive. He is the heir of Harold Abrahams of Chariots of Fire fame, of Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes and Carl Lewis. What other...