Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view the matter as essentially closed and turn their attention to other issues, the controversy was a significant setback for the Democratic campaign, blunting its post-convention momentum and forcing it into a defensive crouch for nearly two weeks. For Ferraro, the affair probably comes out as a wash. She has lost some of the freshness and excitement that she brought to the ticket as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party. Many voters are now likely to see her less as a trail-blazing heroine than as a politician subject to the same kinds...
...school's students are as varied as its courses. Among them: a Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey, a psychologist from Texas and a high school instructor of auto mechanics from Hawaii. Judy Cullen, an animated grandmother and preschool teacher from Lopez Island, Wash., signed up for Day's course because she wants to help her husband build a 36-ft. sloop. Brockett Muir, who recently graduated from the University of Virginia, came to the school because he hopes to spend the next few years building boats professionally...
...Angeles, when Pistol Shooter Xu Haifeng, 27, stood on the victory platform with a bird-of-paradise bouquet in his left hand and a gold medal around his neck. Said he: "I've come here representing a billion people, and they all had high expectations. China wants to wash away its image of being the weakling of Asia...
...Wash it away it most certainly did, winning at least 31 medals, 15 of them gold, in ten sports, far more than Chinese officials had hoped for. At home, Olympic fever gripped the country. Four hours of television coverage were broadcast every day. China had thrilled to the exploits of its gymnasts (second in the men's team competition, third in the women's, five golds in individual events), and then, last week, anxiously awaited the finals between its women's volleyball team, world champions in 1982, and the U.S. Factories and offices came to a stop...
...Chariots of Fire amateur, the kind with true-blue attitudes and prosperous parents. John Biglow is a lean, powerful, awesomely fit man of 6 ft. 3 in. and 188 Ibs. who rowed stroke on the Yale crew. After gradation in 1980, he went back to his home in Bellevue, Wash., to talk things over with his father, Attorney Lucius H. Biglow Jr. "I think he was asking, Was rowing a respectable thing to do?" recalls the elder Biglow. His father gave his approval, but that was not all that John Biglow had been asking, of course. He needed financial backing...