Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit cycling. The winner, Robert Dill-Bundi, shook his head and wept when the white flag with five rings was raised...
...heavy business of the Olympics, track and field, did not get under way until late in the week. Most eagerly awaited was the showdown between England's exciting runners, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, in the 800 meters. Another Briton, Allan Wells, 28, beat them to the gold with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon...
...then the song rolls along with the meter running and the twin refrain: "Get up, get out, get into something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand-new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...
...Albuquerque resident competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., at the end of June and earned a berth on the team by placing third in the 10,000-meter...
Still, informed by this fresh appraisal, readers can be content with the precise passion, rigorously perfect meter and understated rhyme of Housman's work. There is little, after all, in English lyric poetry that surpasses one of his finest poems...