Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oakleaf cluster to his badge as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year, Olympian Bobby Morrow won Texas sportswriters' vote as Southwesterner of the Year and Texas Amateur Athlete of the Year...
Running Rhubarb. Eliminated from most of the last-week surge of frenzy, the U.S. team relaxed and watched the Olympian orgy of "international good will" degenerate into a running international rhubarb. Having stored it up through most of the two weeks of sportsmanlike intimacy, competitors and fans alike began to let loose some of the bad temper induced by the Soviet repression of Hungary. The Russians' popularity seemed to diminish as rapidly as their score rose. They were booed so lustily when they took their turn on the fencing mats that police had to escort them through the threatening...
...nothing else, it demon strated that he Still has plenty of sting left, even after the awesome sledgehammering he took from Rocky Marciano last September. Besides netting him a neat $51,975, the Parker fight served no tice that Archie Moore will be no push over when ex-Olympian Floyd Patterson, the hot young (21) pretender, fights him for the official world heavyweight title in September...
...appeal is that he inhabits a world in which modern man can still find his bearings. Leonardo da Vinci, born 154 years earlier, raised painters to the level of princes, held court while he worked to the accompaniment of music and brilliant conversation; his Venuses were meant to grace Olympian festivals. Rembrandt, whose parents saw to it that he got a good Latin-school education, plus a taste of university life, preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology, but the result (opposite), now owned...
With these earthy sarcasms, the ex-farmboy who bosses about one-fifth of the world's people came down last July from the Olympian remoteness in which he has been wrapped for seven years. Before him, Mao Tse-tung could see failure...