Word: sparklers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sohn Kee Chung, 76. In 1936, a year of Japanese colonial rule, Korea's great marathoner sagged on the Berlin victory stand to be wearing the wrong uniform and hearing the wrong anthem. This time he fairly bounced around Seoul's stadium. Among those who helped shuttle the sparkler to Sohn were several American sportswriters who had misplaced their cynicism in the excitement of the city. At Inchon, John Jeansonne of New York's Newsday hit an invisible speed bump and took an incredible header, but with an Olympian effort kept the torch from touching the ground and finished...
...score remained 1-0 through the bottom of the sixth, at which point the Harvard infield--whose members are currently entering their second year of service together--came up with sparkler number...
Around a ramp of snow trucked down from the hills, the flame was delivered to Figure Skater Sanda Dubravcic. She ran the sparkler up a great white staircase, and the Olympic wok ignited instantly with a roar. But the highlight for some was the final duty of Lake Placid, the hosts of 1980, represented by Mayor Robert Peacock and the Norwood, N.Y., fire-department band. Appearing incomplete without a Dalmatian trotting alongside, the firemen oom-pah-pahed along the Bosnian Main Street, performing When the Saints Go Marching In, America the Beautiful and Baby Face...
...their hotel rooms? What events did they attend? A more detailed survey went out to all 4,400 Legionnaires who had attended the convention, and 3,500 were returned within three days. Other agents followed up stray leads, like a call from a magician who admitted lighting a sparkler at the hotel. Back in Atlanta, clinicians noticed the high white blood cell counts in specimens from the victims, and began to search for bacteria under their microscopes...
...studio is buzzing. Because of the day's unusual guests-Begin and the giant sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes...