Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chess tournament, is about to begin. A short, plump man dressed completely in black calls the contestants to order. "If you lose a game," he wryly suggests, "congratulate your opponent. Do not disturb the tournament by exploding, screaming or weeping loudly." On hearing this, Hans Berliner breaks into a grin. A former world chess-by-mail champion, Berliner will not play in the tournament himself. Instead he has entered his computer, a formidable piece of work named Hitech. "Hitech," ( says Berliner with quiet pride, "is inexorable -- like Bobby Fischer...
Then Little breaks into a grin. "Just kidding," he says...
Steve Blad was born in Iowa but raised from childhood in Hollywood, Fla., by "old-fashioned, God-fearin', all-American parents," he says. "I was the first member of my family to get divorced, to drink whiskey and to roll dice." He grins his lopsided grin. "You might say, I like to color outside the lines...
...Department and Jack Sikma, the Milwaukee Bucks basketball player who helped sponsor her. She will probably never need such financial backing again. She has signed a contract with Disney World, and other commercial deals are sure to follow. Success is unlikely to spoil the engaging Midwesterner with the toothy grin. She plans to go back to school soon and get a degree in physical education. But before that, she has one more goal on the ice. "I still think the 500 can be done in under 39 seconds," she says. "I'd like to be the first to prove...
...limit, there is a devastated Dan Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...