Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It's about time this overgrown circus is cut down to size, to give the IOC the possibility of managing it successfully and the athlete of competing without interference. Maybe we should forget about the Olympics altogether, until we are old enough to know what mutual respect is all...
At 8:45 p.m., in the midst of the Olympics, Helen Hill's television set suddenly went dark. She walked out of her house, which is 300 ft. from the river. Everything looked all right, she recalls, "but the wind told me what was coming."
The calendar was so crowded that the eight-day faith festival was inevitably dubbed the "Catholic Olympics." There were Masses for children and the physically handicapped, blacks and Ruthenians, even a military Mass unwittingly scheduled on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing-so many Masses that the congress's...
Almost predictably, the Games of the XXI Olympiad ended as they began -with sermons, squabbles and a threat to withdraw. Charging Canada with "planned provocation," Soviet officials said they might boycott the weekend events if a 17-year-old Russian diver who defected on Thursday was not returned. Meanwhile America...
Seven minutes of commercials each hour is a small price to pay for seeing the Olympics "up close and personal," to borrow ABC'S own phrase. Yet this Olympiad saw many advertisers straining to link their products to the noblest ideals of athletic competition-and at a staggering cost...