Word: municheer
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...immoral organization in an immoral world," which "jealously guards the freedom of some nations" while neglecting private appeals by "plain humble individuals." In an evident allusion to the West's present efforts at détente with the Soviet Union, which he compares with acquiescence to Hitler at Munich in 1938, he writes: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barbarity, except concessions and smiles...
...masochism in you that needs to be fulfilled, the Harvard crew program is what you need. In Harry Parker and Steve Gladstone (with the heavyweight and lightweight squads, respectively) you will encounter two of the finest--if not the finest--crew coaches in the country. Parker, who is in Munich this summer as head crew coach for the U.S. Olympic team, has become a legend in his own time...
...that erupted last week, virtually on the eve of the XX Olympiad in Munich, was potentially the most disruptive in the troubled 76-year history of the modern Games. The governments of eleven Black African nations, notably Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, declared that they would not permit their countrymen to compete if the Games remained open to athletes from white-supremacist Rhodesia...
...meters) and Amos Biwott (in the 3,000-meter steeplechase). Ethiopia too has potential gold medalists in defending Marathon Champion Mamo Wold and Miruz Yifter, a specialist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs. In short, if Black Africa is absent, some of the medals awarded at Munich will seem slightly tarnished...
...potential long-term consequences are even worse. Overreacting to the threat with characteristic irritability, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage made a threat of his own: if any teams obeyed their governments' orders to withdraw from Munich they would be expelled from future Games. Brundage rationalized his warning by citing an I.O.C. rule that national teams must be independent of their governments. Brundage was being unfairly selective in issuing his threat; he has never chosen to enforce the rule against Communist teams, which are clearly under their governments' control...