Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slowly starting to sink in that I have an Olympic silver medal," Burns said. "We tried to think only of racing that race and beating our opponents instead of thinking about where we were so much that only now is it starting to sink...
...last contest of her 13-year rowing career, Lindsay H. Burns '87 and her partner Teresa Z. Bell rowed a "perfect race" Sunday to claim a silver medal in women's lightweight double sculls at the Olympic Games in Atlanta...
...hurdles. As Sloan says when O'Brien blames a radio interview for his late arrival at Washington State University's weight room, and then stops for a chat with every other jock in the joint, "No one's gonna want to talk to his ass if he wins a silver...
When President Fidel Castro recently addressed 170 Cuban athletes leaving for Atlanta, he made mention of the defections, calling the 28-year-old Arrojo a "Judas who sold out his country for 12 gold coins." Castro also told his Olympians, "More than medals of gold, silver or bronze, what interests us is the medals of morals and honor." Cuban baseball officials, who are used to this sort of thing by now, were more blase and fatalistic about Arrojo's departure, even though Arrojo pitched six shutout innings against Team USA on June 29. Third baseman Omar Linares, the player long...
...Foreign Minister David Levy and Yasser Arafat. It is the first time a high-level official from Benjamin Netanyahu's newly-elected government has met with the man long branded a terrorist by the Likud. "The importance of this meeting is that it took place," reports TIME's Eric Silver. "They broke the ice. It was successful in that they both shook hands warmly and seemed to have a good rapport." After Tuesday's meeting, Silver says, the Likud will have no excuses for sending relatively low-level officials for further negotiations with the Palestinians or for not resuming...