Word: talant
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Every time one looked up at the bank of 20 TV screens in the Olympic Stadium media subcenter, one could see arms being raised, in victory or despair. A man called Talant scored with two minutes left to lift Spain to the medal round, above Egypt, in team handball, 20-19. The perennial Olympian, basketball hero Oscar Schmidt, in his fifth and last Games, put up an absurd shot for Brazil with 17 seconds left, and it fell in, and Puerto Rico was defeated. In the new sport of women's softball, an American pitcher was one strike away from...
...Talant won the tournament, after beating the Sears brothers three sets to nothing. It was generally supposed that they would make a hard fight against Tailer and Snow. About two hundred students watched the match, which was characterized by the steady play of Lee and Talant, but the college champions were too brilliant for them. Snow volleyed strongly, while Tailer placed accurately, hitting very hard. The sets were the longest and most brilliant ever seen in Cambridge. In the third set the games were four to one against Snow and Tailer. They then won five games straight, their play calling...
...Sears and Q. A. Shaw be sent to New Haven as Harvard's representatives to the intercollegiate tournament to be held there next week; and that Messrs. P. S. Sears and H. M. Sears, Q. A. Shaw and T. S. Tailer, C. Bohlen and F. Keene, and Lee and Talant be requested to report at 2.30 p. m. on the Longwood Grounds...
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