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...game was bigger than ice hockey. When the two global powers finally met in the semifinals, the free world seemed to be at stake. And then the Red machine went clank. Never let an underdog think it has a shot. Mike Eruzione made the go-ahead goal 10 endless minutes before the buzzer. U.S.A. 4, U.S.S.R...
...goal in 10 minutes?a rapid-fire hat trick. He slips off his lime-green shirt and runs, roaring, to strike a pose in front of his countrymen. Carefully, almost reverently, he places the shirt on the turf like an offering to the faithful. His fans bang bongos and clank cymbals and bellow right back. But hold on?aren't Nigeria's Super Eagles out of the World Cup, first-round casualties, winging their way back to Africa and ignominy? Not in Thailand, where they have firmed as favorites after a 6-1 trouncing of Japan in last week...
...looks more like a sack of potatoes than anything else - the coarsely woven brown bag the skinny Thai corporal is hefting onto the rickety table with a grunt. The sack gapes open and dozens of guns clank out, covering the tabletop, several dropping onto the grimy concrete floor. We stare at the jumbled heap of handguns, which I know from Joe, the arms trader who has brought me, are either Brownings or Smith & Wessons. Some have seen long service, the butts chipped and scored. Joe ignores these, instead picking up a snub-nosed Browning, still shiny with...
Monti was clearly still hurting from her ankle injury from the day before. She took only three shots in 21 minutes of playing time, and she missed in ways she usually doesn't miss, twice having her shots clank off the front of the rim. Monti managed to score five points and add two assists, but she was not the impact player that she usually...
...loud," he says. "And the voices were far too shrill and strident... I'm relieved I have the opportunity to get this [reworked], because it would have destroyed the film." To lighten the tone, some of the score will be softened. Miller says he is even tuning down the clank when Farmer Hoggett falls into a well, because "people thought he was dead...