Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbreak of fighting also promises to swell the stream of refugees fleeing into Sudan, which is itself suffering through a wasting famine. Almost 850,000 Ethiopians have crowded into Sudanese camps where, often, there is little shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad I came...
...summary power of forgiveness resides with God alone. After that, forgiveness gets personal. Pope John Paul II could forgive Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot him. The bullet hole in his abdomen gave him the authority to do that. So, in a sacramental way, did his ordination as a priest. Ronald Reagan can forgive John Hinckley (the Pope and the President both being members of the brotherhood of the shot). But Ronald Reagan cannot forgive Agca for shooting the Pope. Nor can he forgive SS men for what they did in Europe while Reagan was making Army training films...
...generation of viewers may be just as delighted with the shows Gleason has pulled out of his Ali Baba's cave in Florida. One of Ralph's more tender lines to Alice could be applied to each of the four star players: "Baby, you're the greatest...
...himself put it. He kept a lion and a tiger because they were bad. He had 47 fights and knocked out 42 men. He took the world title by half killing Joe Frazier in 1973 and then lost it the next year in Zaire to Muhammad Ali, who could not have been brought down that night by a tank. "I be alright when the swelling goes down," Foreman wrote in his journal. Then he took his rage to Toronto, where he whipped five fighters in one evening. In 1976 he savaged Joe Frazier again, all but beating his own chest...
Only pro wrestling, as perpetrated by Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, could provide such a uniquely 1980s fusion of chic and sleaze. WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah...