Word: olympicsized
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On Jan. 30, the Winter Olympics are inaugurated in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. The U.S. garners three gold medals and finishes an unofficial third, behind Sweden and Switzerland. During the Games, Dick Button '52 becomes the first American to win a figure skating title. The Summer Olympics, held between July 29...
The National Women's Water Polo "A" Team, which trains in California year round, is made up of the top 20 women's water polo players in the U.S. The squad represents the U.S. at the Pan Pacific Games, as well as at the Olympics in 2000. The National Women...
After his release in 1993--mere days before acommittee was to decide on Beijing's bid to hostthe 2000 Olympics--Wei again ran into trouble,this time for speaking with the U.S. AssistantSecretary of State for Human Rights. He wassentenced to another 14 years of prison in 1995
Horowitz's claim is that the co-chairs of Israel's 50th Anniversary Committee--Americans Merv Adelson, co-founder of Lorimar Telepictures, and Marvin Josephson, founder of International Creative Management--did not receive the promised monetary support from the Israeli government because their conception of an anniversary celebration differed sharply...
Baseball has this strange capacity to blur nationalities. Perhaps because it has no international competitions (aside from the largely ignored Olympics) to inflame nationalistic prejudices, or perhaps because some of our best players are foreign-born, baseball fans heartily embrace players from Japan, Mexico, Korea, the Dominican Republic, and all...