Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The mood Brezhnev struck during the interview was one of seriousness and sincerity. Though stating an essentially tough Soviet line, he was reaching for understanding, looking hard into the faces across from him. Only twice did he display spontaneous animation. At one point he picked up a bent paper clip...
31. Spencer Haywood in the 1968 Olympics
Back in 1976, when Jerry Ford was still President and Shirley Babashoff was still queen of American women's swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a...
Carter went to the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis to raise the party's consciousness about budget cutting. Teddy Kennedy went out to oppose Carter. Next day back in Washington, Kennedy was scheduled to share the presidential box at the benefit for the Special Olympics, a Kennedy family...
Curry, 29, an Englishman who won the gold medal for men's figure skating at the 1976 Olympics, was inevitably offered high-paying jobs by various ice shows. He turned them all down to pursue his own vision. "I don't like to criticize them," he told a...