Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock Friday morning, 2,000 competitors will assemble before the gates of the Kulm Hotel, march three by three to the stadium and there in chorus repeat the Olympic oath: "We swear we come to the Olympic games . . . in a chivalrous spirit for the honor of our countries and the glory of sport...
...more in the breach than in the observance, and there were some in St. Moritz who thought the 1948 Olympic games would be the last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn't perform up to snuff. Soviet Russia...
...tracing. Sometimes they knocked her down. But she always got up and went carefully on. She never went home until she finished the required number of hours of practice, and when she did, it was often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara out to tea and gave her an autographed picture of herself...
...many had the strength or the spirit to offer complete resistance. Ambrière was one of 4,000 Frenchmen (there were also 300 Dutchmen and 200 Belgians) who were sent to a special camp in Poland for bitter-enders who refused to do any work for the Germans. When the Russians got close, these prisoners were returned to Germany, where Ambrière's group was liberated by the U.S. Third Army...
...obvious that Elder Statesman Hoover had missed the whole point and spirit of ERP, had sadly confused long-term recovery with short-term relief. But his words had provided a new rallying point for congressional recalcitrants. The best way to cut the ground from under them again was just such a proposition as Bevin had made: a long-range goal of cooperative selfhelp, which depended on assurance of long-range U.S. support...