Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was evident in Peking recently at the Third National Games, a 17-day internal Chinese Olympics. The huge grab bag of a gala involved more than 10,000 athletes vying in dozens of events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80...
From there on out, the propaganda intensified, as the card-carrying faithful created an oversize portrait of Chairman Mao, a blockbuster mural of Chinese industrial development and pictorial tributes to China's performing arts, medical services (including a flash-card diagram showing acupuncture of an ear) and table tennis...
For many years, Juan Carlos spent his mornings at the palace in briefing sessions with high-ranking government experts, following a curriculum for kingship devised by Franco. Economics was the subject on Monday, church matters and foreign policy on Tuesday, labor and industry on Wednesday, cultural affairs on Thursday, and...
Also skating will be Jim Milne and Colleen O'Connor, the U.S. Dance Champions who finished second to the Russians in the last Olympics, finishing higher than any other American pair in history.
This pair, along with Canada's Cranston, should play a prominent role in next year's Winter Olympics.