Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well past midnight before Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was finally convinced of her upset victory. As the news sank in, Chamorro's perpetually smiling face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living room. Then she began reciting the Hail Mary. "God bless Nicaragua," she concluded, her voice choked with emotion...
Chamorro will have no honeymoon with the sizable Sandinista minority that considers her a class enemy, and she has little in common with the poor. Last January, when she broke her knee in a fall at home, she jetted to Houston for surgery. She returned home in a wheelchair that cost more than most of her countrymen earn in a year...
...didn't expect much," concurred Kosch, who has been absent from many practices in the second half of this season due to her knee injury...
Neuhardt came in third to qualify for nationals, to be held March 21-23 at Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Kosch, fencing with an injured knee, finished 12th...
...casual pace suggests disorganization rather than confidence. Until last month, Chamorro restricted her forays outside Managua to weekends, supposedly for lack of funds. Her unfamiliarity with the details of issues, like Nicaragua's hyperinflation, has spawned unflattering comparisons with Ronald Reagan. Enthroned in a wheelchair because of knee surgery, Chamorro becomes testy when asked if she feels Ortega is outhustling...