Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head up the 170,000-man, $6 billion-a-year Veterans Administration (third largest Government employer behind Defense and the Post Office), Johnson chose William J. Driver, 46, a VA career man who has served as deputy administrator for nearly four years. Even on this less than Olympian level of Government, Johnson was being unusually reticent about discussing who was in and who was out-the word was that the President just does not want "the wives of these administrators to start crying in bed because they had read that the President had fired their husbands...
...Crimson sweep of the two-mile may be nearly offset by the Cadets in the 600. There Captain Hal Jenkins and Rance Farrell, the first two finishers behind Olympian Wendell Mottley in last year's Heptagonal 600, appear likely to handle the field...
Probably no athletes in history have ever been accorded such tender loving care. In the Olympic village, 650 bicycles stood ready in case any Olympian tired of walking. An International Club helped while away their idle hours, dispensing free milk and Ovaltine to the strains of a red-hot jazz combo. In the dining rooms, 300 chefs labored mightily to prepare 490,000 meals, whomping up everything from scones to sukiyaki for their charges. And there, among the hustling waiters, was Hirohito's grandson, who signed on for $1.95 a day. It was all too much for a pair...
...carefully analyzing this Olympian grouping, we can deduce many things about humanity. Everyone worth studying is male. Just under a fourth of them wrote in Latin or Greek. Another fourth wrote in English...
President de Gaulle may seek to make his current interest in Southeast Asia appear Olympian, but the interest that many Frenchmen have in the area is down to earth-and economic. Though forced to leave the area as a major power a decade ago, France still holds at least a $375 million investment in her former Indo-Chinese empire, more than any other nation. The total may not seem great in the industrialized West, but in a backward region it constitutes a substantial influence...