Word: dervishness
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...next night in the free-skating program, Zayak decided that having got mad, she would now get even. From her first dazzling triple-loop, double-loop combination, she was a spinning dervish. She threw one near-perfect triple after another until she had reached her goal of seven and won her silver medal -and every heart in the house. Just wait...
Center Steve Johnson, 6 ft. 10 1/2 in., 235 lbs., is a giant dervish, spinning loose for layups or whirling to loft a hook shot. The Beavers' offense is geared to pry him free within 6 ft. of the basket. Johnson completed 71% of his field goals last year, the highest single-season average in college history. He is shooting 76% this year, pushing his career average up to 67.5%. If Johnson can maintain the pace for the rest of the season, he will pass Bill Walton (who shot 65.1 % in his three years at U.C.L.A.) as the most...
...ancient popular belief that has recurred throughout Islamic history. In the colonial era, several "Mahdis" announced themselves as liberators. Perhaps the most famous was the "Mahdi of the Sudan," Mohammed Ahmad ibn Abdullah, whose dervish troops killed General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and the other defenders during the siege of Khartoum...
...south east, passing north of Oklahoma City. The pickup heads for Norman. It has taken 500 miles of driving and ten hours, but Moore has caught his tornado, and it didn't catch him. The 11 ft. of film on which he captured nature's awesome dervish will be scrutinized by NSSL scientists and added to the incomplete yet growing mosaic of knowledge about storms that kill an average of 250 people a year and do a billion dollars worth of damage...
...away: NUM 1. This is not wish fulfillment on a rear bumper, though. The owner of this Mercedes rates. In a time of phenomenal success for the record business (698.2 million albums, singles and tapes were sold for $3.5 billion in 1977), Al Coury, president, head honcho and chief dervish of Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making $18,000 a year for Capitol," Coury says...