Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...convention of editorial writers. "Many an editorial writer can't hit a short-range target," Jones said. "It takes guts to dig up the dirt on the sheriff, or to expose a utility racket, or to tangle with the Governor. They all bite back, and you had better know your stuff. But you can pontificate about the situation in Afghanistan in perfect safety. You have no fanatic Afghans among your readers. Nobody knows more about the subject than you do, and nobody gives a damn...
...politics is the equivalent of saying that disco dancing has nothing to do with sex. Politics has always been a glowing, insistent presence in the Games, and in some ways their reason for being. Nations continue to compete hungrily for the right to host the Games even though they know that the host always loses millions of dollars in the process. Montreal was nearly bankrupted by the $1.27 billion cost of the 1976 Olympics. The political gains-prestige, legitimacy, image-are frequently judged to be worth the monetary loss. In 1968, Mexico City had the distinction of being the first...
...course and was laid up for months with a dislocated hip. She won the bronze in the '76 Olympics in the downhill. This is her last Olympics, and to win a gold she will have to beat out the likes of Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig. "I don't know how long I'll ski after Lake Placid," says Nelson, "but it won't be another four years. I've lived ten months of every year out of a suitcase since I was 15. I've got a home and a dog, and I'd like to do some cooking...
...Germans should win again in bobsledding, an event that might produce a drama of its own at Lake Placid. The star will not be a driver or brakeman, but the bobsled run itself. Since work was completed on the new refrigerated run at Lake Placid, bobsledders have come to know it as one of the sport's toughest, trickiest courses. One particular turn, the Zig-Zag, a high-banked 60° left turn for 165 ft., followed by an equally tight 170-ft. right turn, is deemed the most technically difficult in the world. More than 50 bobsled teams have crashed...
...Winter Olympics was a watershed nonetheless: for the first time, the Games were televised daily. The telecasts introduced winter sports to the many Americans who did not know the difference between schuss and Schnee. The Games were such a European preserve that CBS, which paid a piddling $50,000 for the broadcast rights, was slow to line up sponsors for its 15 scheduled hours of live and taped reports. It was a far cry from the electronic blanket that today threatens to suffocate the Games. ABC paid $15.5 million for the rights to Lake Placid, and will spend nearly...