“To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.” YearsHas BeensRealHardTogetherGamesIndividualSacrificeTeamHard WorkHonorDeterminationSouthLondonSouth AfricaSelectedOlympic GamesRelays Author:Oscar Pistorius
“The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.” HardWindMountainWestSouthEasternSlopes Author:Tim Cahill
“South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.” ShouldChildrenHardHomeRememberOrderGamesWalksTeacherReturnMassSouthEveningCurseRepeatsHardshipKorean Author:Kim Il-sung
“You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.” WayCountryHardHelpingUseStarsShadowSouthGoldenBridgesGatesYankeesJointsCablesSunnyBrooklynCapitolHamburgersPentagonBurgersDixieBrooklyn Bridge Author:Charles Kuralt
“Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.” NeedsMayMeanLittlesHardPoliticalWhiteEconomySpeechMassSouthFlightOptimisticDisappointedCollapseSouth AfricaSlaughterZimbabwePolitical Speeches Author:Simon Hoggart