Word: olympiad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long countdown to the November elections is already well begun as the race to become Ronald Reagan's Democratic challenger fills columns of print and hours on the air waves. The summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into competition its most balanced and impressive team ever, one that stars...
...heart. Whatever befalls them between now and next July, whether act of man or nature, could scarcely be as bad as the troubles that bedeviled the promoters of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Yet that small band not only survived, it triumphed and made the Games of the X Olympiad profitable and one of history's best and most fondly remembered...
...woke up to what was happening. Movie stars offered to entertain, merchants lined the streets with foreign flags, and, most important, tickets suddenly began to sell. Years later, visitors remembered the extraordinary atmosphere of amity that pervaded the air during the 16 days of the Games of the X Olympiad. At the end of the first day's events, an announcer asked spectators to remain seated so there would be no traffic to slow the athletes on their way back to the village. The great throng joined in singing a chorus of songs until the contestants were well...
...display whirling the 1982 model, known as the Peppermint Hula Hoop, because it bears barber-pole stripes and is peppermint scented. In coming weeks the hoop will be featured in an episode of the television comedy-adventure The Dukes of Hazzard, and paraded in Daytona Beach, Fla., at an olympiad of hoop-based sporting events during the spring break for college students...
...former teammates may bump heads against in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Barnes was a consolation finalist at the 1980 Olympic Trials and said he plans to spend next fall training for a shot at the 23rd Olympiad...