Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...
...seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades and automatic fire flying...
...more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots rang out from the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol of Mehmet Ali Agca. Two weeks later, Hartmann and his wife were showing slides of then-vacation to their son Wolfgang, 33, a schoolteacher. Wolfgang immediately spotted what his parents had missed: perhaps the most chilling photographic record of the attempted assassination...
...same place?" Ali murmurs. He does not like that, and momentarily his voice clears. "We're different still. I fight to motivate people. Think of the people who would give up in life who are watching me now. Four-time champion. Think of it. Biggest in all boxing. Isn't that enough to keep anyone going...
...face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook, I knew I had to survive. I proved myself. I don't see no reason to stop fighting now." Ali can see no reason either. . . . remembering that the man who fights one more round is never whipped...