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Word: olympicsized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just How Low Can Coe Go? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

He won a gold medal running the 400-meter hurdles in a record 47.82 sec. at the Munich Olympics in '72. But that didn't matter in the hallucinogenic country that Uganda became under Idi Amin. For three years John Akii-bua, 29, was forbidden to leave the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 9, 1979 | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

The current round of SALT negotiations has taken place in an atmosphere of increasing cordiality between the two superpowers. Administration analysts believe that an important policy decision was made in the Kremlin last fall to ease the hard line that it had been following ever since the new President Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Atmosphere of Urgency | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

But all he really needs this fall is one runaway hit, a Charlie's Angels or a Mork and Mindy. With a smasheroo to help pull up other shows, and with the Moscow Olympics to build on in 1980, NBC could be right back in the thick of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Struggling to Leave the Cellar | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Harvard Olympics '79--competition in soccer, volleyball, tennis, table tennis, swimming and backgammon; Soldiers Field, 8:30 a.m.-1 a.m.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 26- May 2 | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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