Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As Belenko approached Japanese airspace near Sapporo, the site of the 1972 Winter Olympics, his pursuers suddenly turned back, probably recalled to their base by radio command. Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces, spotting the intruder on radar, warned him (in Russian) by radio that he would soon violate Japanese airspace...
A British longshoreman blew 192 smoke rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England...
The figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided...
That question most expensively troubles television. A mere 30% of the nation's sets were tuned to the Republicans on the first night of the convention, though this was a slight gain over the Democrats' 26%. Is gavel to gavel (even with all the interspersed commercials) worth it...
It has been a great experience to witness our great American athletes in the Olympics.