Word: handing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Soviet gymnast Dmitri Bilozerchev were able to view only a smattering of his routines, although the reporting team of Dick Enberg, Mary Lou Retton and especially Bart Conner explained the events incisively. Fans of men's diving were lucky to see Greg Louganis tucked into the bottom right-hand corner while a minor basketball game dominated the screen...
...Anthony Hembrick and Kelcie Banks. Middleweight Hembrick, 22, captain of the U.S. team, missed a bus and never got a chance to fight. Featherweight Banks, 23, should have missed his; he got careless midway through the first round ^ against Regilio Tuur of the Netherlands, ran into a hard right hand and suffered a one-punch knockout that left him unconscious for a full three minutes. "I never saw it, didn't even feel it," Banks said after an overnight hospital stay...
...full, however, so they waited for the 10:30, thinking Hembrick's fight would not take place until after noon. But they had misread the schedule, and arrived at ringside just in time to see the referee raise South Korean Ha Jong-Ho's hand in victory. An appeal was denied. Said a stunned Hembrick: "I'll have an empty spot inside for a long time." Next day U.S. welterweight Kenneth Gould, 21, arrived at the gym three hours early and won his fight. By week's end he and nine teammates remained unbeaten, with good medal prospects...
...when Avril stood before his new civilian Cabinet in the National Palace last Monday, Hebreux was at his left, a manila envelope in one hand, an Uzi submachine gun on his shoulder. And when Avril appeared before Presidential Guard troops the following day, Hebreux handed him a statement to read...
Taxi driver Raham Dahalla, eyeing a darkening sky over Khartoum, hesitantly stuck his hand outside his cab window. "No more rain, please," he said. Sure enough, only a few drops fell this time. But even after the floodwaters subside, Sudan's political, economic and religious problems will be serious enough to engulf any government. For the majority of Sudan's 24 million citizens, the forecast is gloomy regardless of the weather...