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«Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moments of my sporting career.»
Author: Michael Diamond
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
Atlanta, Barcelona, Olympian, proudest, representing, sporting
«Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.»
Author: Michael Diamond
| Keywords:
Olympian
«Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.»
«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolve, absolved, code, critter, critters, journalist, Journalists, motive, objectivity, Olympian, purity, roach, roaches, scurry, scurrying, step on, turn on
«NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. --J.G.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
banquets, deities, Juno, Olympian, rye
«OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse. --Averil Joop»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attesting, attests, beer bottle, bottles, Minerva, mutilate, mutilated, Olympian, repositories, repository, sardine, sardines, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls, smirk, smirking, Thessaly, thundered, yellowing, Zeus
«CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. --Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. --Gabriel will raise her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cemetery, commemorate, commemorated, conspicuous, cutter, cutters, Frazer, Gabriel, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, inscriptions, isolated, m, Mary, mourner, mourners, Olympian, Olympian Games, overlook, rebuke, represented, suburban, target, Thomas, wager, wagered
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