Word: blow
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...center. He began in Denver and ended up in Washington. After helping the Broncos win two of three strike games, Jones hired on with the Redskins simply as a snapper for punts and place-kicks. Knocked unconscious in the Vikings game, he was advised by doctors that another blow to his vertebrae might paralyze him. "I think someone's trying to tell me something," he said. "I'm done playing for good...
Correspondent Don Winbush, who was also a teenager at the time, remembers most vividly the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. "For me, a young black man who had grown up in the South, it was a stunning blow," says Winbush. Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins finds June 5 to be the day that continues to haunt. Turning on the radio as she awoke that morning, she learned that Robert Kennedy had been shot. "As I began to absorb what was happening, the phone rang," she says. "It was my mother, calling to sing Happy Birthday...
...response was unusually sharp. The State Department expressed its "disgust," and Attorney General Edwin Meese called the incident a "shocking blow to international law enforcement." The Drug Enforcement Administration's reaction was even more scathing. Said DEA Chief John Lawn: "I'm shocked at the cowardice shown by the government of Colombia...
...rude, I'm overbearing," Downey admits. But he insists such tactics are needed to "break away the Madison Avenue veneer that all these experts come on the show with nowadays. You get them angry enough, they'll blow their stack and tell you what they really think." The show's producers say Downey's abrasive style fills a gap left by the departure of Joe Pyne and other strident talk stars of the '60s. Though Downey's audience outside the New York City area is limited to about 14 million cable homes that receive WWOR, there is already talk...
...Americans who were hurt in the Crash of '87, few feel as let down as the millions who invested in stock mutual funds. Their money, after all, was in the hands of savvy professionals who, if they saw a disaster coming, would take the necessary precautions to ease the blow...