Word: wilma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt about it. Florence Griffith Joyner is the First Lady of track and field. By winning three gold medals and one silver, Flo-Jo surpassed the 28- year-old record of Wilma Rudolph and nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated...
...kind these neighborhoods always seem to inspire, steered her through a series of Junior Olympics championships and a busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told her, "you'll need to express yourself...
...river now rarely floods, thanks to massive levees built along its banks to protect riverside land. The combination of saltwater intrusion and freshwater cutoff, says Houck, leaves the wetlands "caught in a double whammy. You couldn't do a better job of screwing up Louisiana if you planned it."Wilma Dusenberry, a Chauvin, La., restaurant owner, reflects the fears of many who depend on the bounty of the wetlands: "If we lose the marsh, we lose our livelihoods...
...Wilma Sweeney...
...Wilma Mankiller, who has led the 72,000-member Oklahoma tribe since December of 1984, told an audience of 65 in Boylston Hall that stereotypes in books and movies ignore the fact that many tribes were once controlled by women, who often wielded real power although they lacked honorary titles...