Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, an Olympian dream comes in the bargain. "I want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that...
...Olympian clinched the team scoring title (29 goals, 40 assists, 69 points), tied for the Ivy scoring title (9-14-23) with Yale's Bob Kudleski, took the ECAC scoring title (23-29--52) and was the second leading scorer in the United States (2.65 points per game) and the leading scorer in the contiguous United States...
...play's Tom (Edward Herrmann) finds it "an enormous effort to be trivial" with people. He husbands his passion for the empty page. He is the hollow man, a prune and a prude with the secret sin of genius, which must not be dissipated in ordinary intercourse. This Olympian diffidence, Hastings suggests, was sufficient to make the young scholar from St. Louis a figure of fun to his English in-laws--and perhaps enough to drive his wife...
Eight minutes later, the Olympian connected on the power play from another short angle, upping the Crimson lead...
...career spring columns the Olympian is now in fifth place with 186 points, trailing only Robert McNamara(151), George Huger (161), Cavanaugh (187, and Bob clears...