Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canine terror is the American pit bull, a dog with a squat, muscular body and thick, steel-trap jaws that is descended from the fighting bulldogs of 19th century England. In 2 1/2 years it has been responsible for 16 deaths across the country, six of them in the past year, leading many municipalities to pass laws to restrict ownership. It is estimated that there are now 500,000 unregistered, often poorly bred pit bullterriers in the U.S. So fearsome is the dog's reputation that it has become imbued with much the same malevolent aura as the beast...
...nearly seven years of internal exile in the closed city of Gorky. At a ceremony in Moscow last week inducting him into the French Academy of Sciences, Sakharov, who was allowed to return home last December, accused fellow members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony did not mention Sakharov's remarks...
DIED. Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...
...Valuable Player. The 6-ft. 9-in. Michigander is the first guard in 23 years to win the award and only the third to do so in N.B.A. history. Receiving 65 first-place votes and a total of 733 points from the selection panel, Johnson, 27, streaked past Chicago Bull Michael Jordan (ten votes) and Boston Celtic Larry Bird (one vote), who had been named mvp for the past three years. Now in his eighth season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson shot 52% from the field and 85% from the free-throw line, for an average career high...
Davis is just 24 years old, a number eternally associated with Mays, and wears 44 on his back, Aaron's ancient monogram. His hitting stance is as bowed as a bull rider's and, like Mays, he wields his bat low. But he is more coiled and wristy even than Aaron. Davis' thumbnail sketch includes these barely credible entries: supposedly he developed those wrists dribbling basketballs endlessly on the blacktops of direst Los Angeles and was a mere eighth-round draft choice in 1980 because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound...