Word: mermen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political landmarks are seldom so crisply delineated, so easy to pick out from a cluttered backdrop. Even the most circumspect observers around the U.S., ordinarily careful to qualify their generalizations, saw the news, whether it heartened or disturbed them, as profoundly significant, even revolutionary. The choice, said G. Mermen Williams, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the state's former Governor, "is at the cutting edge of history. Sexual equality is overdue by a generation. Changes like this have given courage to the fainthearted to do what they wanted to do anyway and has convinced those...
...There is so much depth in the American ranks that some swimming experts feel the summer's best meet is not the one in Moscow but the U.S. championships in Irvine, Calif., this week. Indeed, the Irvine event has become a shadow Olympics, an opportunity for the U.S. mermen to top the winning times in Moscow-and reclaim world attention from the hard-stroking Soviet swimmers, who had five golds entering Saturday's competition...