Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next season proved to be bittersweet forMartins. He had the opportunity to be on a teamwith Ted Drury--two-time Olympian, 1992-93 Harvardhockey captain and current Hartford Whaler.Unfortunately, Martins was injured and played just18 games...
Patients think of him as a guardian angel. Nurses call him a god. Virtually every week for the past three decades, pioneering trans-plant surgeon John Najarian -- an Olympian figure with the physique of a football player and the self-confidence to match -- has ventured into the operating room at the University of Minnesota Hospital to battle death. And more often than not, he has won. Patients he has saved can vividly recall the surge of hope they felt when Najarian gave them his simple...
...were pitted against the nation's top-ranked team, Michigan, led by sophomore Olympian Tom Dolan, the world-record holder in the 200-individual medley. Thirteenth-ranked Florida, Yale and Boston University rounded off the competition...
...which may account for Richter's distinctive, Olympian style. His huge stevedore's hands address the keys with the utmost confidence, and though the wrong notes sometimes fall thick and fast, there is never any question of who is in command -- or what the point of the performance really is. Richter has never been a virtuoso on the order of Vladimir Horowitz or Lazar Berman, a later Soviet firebrand with a crackling technique and not much else. Instead, he is a musician first and a pianist second. Hearing him play, one has the sense that if he could, he would...
...earlier marriages. Thompson's is a fascinating story in its own right: a songwriter (she wrote Houston's I Have Nothing with Foster) and actress (15 years on the country-music TV show Hee Haw), she once lived for . five years with Elvis Presley and was later married to Olympian Bruce Jenner...