Word: bloomers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ease of Coe's victory dumbfounded his rivals. "He didn't even go full blast," marveled Scott. A graduate this year (in economics) of Loughborough University of Technology, Coe was a late bloomer as a runner. Though a champion schoolboy racer, his world class potential did not appear until later. He ran a 3:57.7 mile in 1977, and he turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett...
...male delirium-this means that virtually every man and boy in Europe and South America, and very large numbers of them in North America, Africa and Asia, and in all the ships at sea, caught some part of the action. In the U.S., where soccer is a late-bloomer passing rapidly from robust infancy to sprouting adolescence, more than 1 million watched on closed-circuit...
Ringlets, a straw hat, crimson satin bloomers-and sneakers. Midge Costanza knows how to dress for success. In fact, President Carter's aide stole the show last week at a fund raiser for the Women's National Democratic Club. The "political fashion show" at Washington's Arena Stage featured Caron Carter dressed as her mother-in-law and Louisiana Representative Lindy Boggs as Lady Bird Johnson. Costanza's role: Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White...
Kings and Presidents pay him court, office seekers solicit his support, and audiences of Elks and securities analysts are eager to receive his wisdom. Yet the man who sits at the top of one of the world's most powerful newspapers was, to put it gently, a late bloomer. Mild dyslexia inherited from his mother was only part of his problem. "He was the most adorable, attractive boy," says she. "He was also a lazy little...
Died. Alice Paul, 92, longtime crusader for women's rights and shaper of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; in Moorestown, N.J. After successfully lobbying for the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment-she was thrown into jail in 1917 for leading a parade of bloomer-clad suffragists in front of the White House-Paul in 1923 helped draft a prototype of the current Equal Rights Amendment and spent more than 50 years pressing for its ratification...