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...University of Texas, which boasts competitors like two-time Olympian Jill Sterkel, who set a new American record in the 50-yd. butterfly, has jumped to a commanding lead and looks uncontested for the laurels again...
...fact, they actually did beat the Russians once. Well, at least one of them did. Mike Kruzione, of Lake Placid and Boston University fame plays with the team on occasion, including last year's 9-5 loss to the Crimson. No one knows for sure whether the Olympian will be back tomorrow to average last year's defeat but at least Flynn said, "There's a very good chance...
...even if they do make it into the limelight, the task is by no means easy. Jim Craig, whose Olympian goaltending needs little introduction, spent much of last year off the ice and in a dispute with his employers, the Boston Bruins. This year, sans dispute. Craig is sidelined with a broken leg. But then, no one ever said pro hockey was a cushy line of business.For JIM CRAIG playing the pros hasn't been pure pleasure...
...rodomontade. In more complex usage, exaggeration does dynamic and suggestive work: it can be used to frighten or threaten , to reassure(oneself or others),to glorify and debunk, and, above all, to relieve the tedium of life to entertain. Exaggeration is one of the methods of all myth-from Olympian deities to giants like Paul Bunyan and John Henry, to mythic historical figures- Mao, say, or George Patton. A child exaggerates his parents' powers to the point of myth; heroes and caricatures, of course, is based on the artists method of exaggerating one feature in proportion to the others...
...scientists worked with poor technique and even more distorting preconceptions. The little-known facts--the U.S. army had an average "intelligence" in World War I of a 13.08-year-old--and the previously unpublished material--Louis Agassiz, the great Swiss naturalist and later Harvard professor, was not the only Olympian detachment of his reputation--provide fascinating reading...