Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That case was a travesty of justice," he added. Although he said doctors had to "flip [this patient] through the abdomen to repair the damges," he added that "the surgeons didn't do anything wrong. In any other hospital, she would have been dead...
...nose to stabilize the machine, and while those on the cigarskis appeared to be larger than normal, it was their added flank fins that stunned other sledders. Critics cautioned that the innovative fins could cause a careening bob to dig into the track, leading to a wrenching flip that might kill the crewmen...
...Italy for 30 years, Cornelisen is so much at home with the Italian scene and its cosmopolitan settlers that she can at once see through them and like what she perceives. Her four earlier books were heartfelt documentaries about depressed villages and their degraded women; here she addresses the flip side of the country's trials. Her most winning character is, in a sense, the lazy, sunlit hill town of San Felice Val Gufo, whose main industry is gossip and main activity leisure. Its happy-go-lucky air is eminently well suited to the semi-elegant foreign riffraff-lascivious...
Hamilton usually completes five triple jumps in his final program but he popped out of a triple flip and that cost him point deductions for technical merit. Instead of three revolutions he only did one. Had he not been winning by such a large margin after the compulsory figures, he might have lost the medal that America had expected him to win for some time...
...retrieve your sled." In the '60s, before he weighed 210 lbs., when he was a pretty handy 6-ft. 1-in. basketball player, Tucker thought of trying out for the Puerto Rican Olympic basketball team. But dreams, like pounds, like years, slip by faster than luge racers flip from their sleds. Finally last year, he says, "I got the name of the president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee out of the New York Times. They sent me a beret. The rest of my opening ceremonies uniform is off the shelf." Now the dream is close enough so that...