Word: abbott
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...Abbott became the center of a celebratory sandwich after pitching the U.S. baseball team to a 5-3 gold medal victory over Japan. That win reversed the results of the 1984 Games, in which the Japanese humiliated the Americans by beating them at their own national pastime. "This was my dream of a lifetime," Abbott said after he and the rest of his thrilled teammates were unpiled...
...collegiate All-American first-round draft choice of the California Angels, Abbott, 21, has impressed sports fans around the world with his grace and talent -- despite being born without a right hand. In addition to his strong pitching performance -- he went the full nine innings and scattered seven hits -- Abbott made a dramatic fielding play in the bottom of the eighth to provide the U.S. with the emotional boost it needed to overcome the Japanese in the suspense-filled game. Seeming to gather momentum as he went along, the former University of Michigan star retired eleven of the last twelve...
That bracing ingenuity marks many of AMMI's exhibits. Nam June Paik's video installation is an automobile frame on which are mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium...
...recently became the first U.S. pitcher in 25 years to defeat the Cuban national team on its own turf. Now Jim Abbott, 20, who plays for the University of Michigan, has scored another first. Last week Abbott, who was born without a right hand, received the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete of the year, the only baseball player ever to be so honored in the prize's 58-year history. "They picked the worst athlete up here," said Abbott as he accepted his trophy. "Baseball players usually don't get that much respect." This one deserves...
...hours prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange because of the five-hour transatlantic time difference. Lynch called up his traders with sell orders, since the wave of redemption requests had swelled over the weekend. On his list of stocks to be dropped: Abbott Laboratories, Amoco, Capital Cities/ABC and many more. Then Lynch traveled to the small coastal town of Dingle and checked in at the Sceilig Hotel just before 2:30 p.m., as the 9:30 a.m. starting bell at the Big Board was about to ring. Lynch got on the phone and stayed riveted...