Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harmony that is the hallmark of Russian pairs skating has been handed down intact to the latest heirs. Vorobieva and Lisovski took a comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near collision on their dual camel spins (twirling on one leg with the other leg stretched out, arm tight against it, so that the body forms a T) during the free skating could not diminish their domination. "I was satisfied with the results," Lisovski allowed later, "but not with my skating. We can skate better." That is hard to imagine...
After perfunctory haggling, we pile into a van for the next leg of the trip to El Arish. The tarmac has long ago been chewed up by Israeli armor. It leads to a moonscape of sand dunes that over the centuries has been traversed by Pharaonic armies, Roman legions, Crusaders and even Napoleon's troops. For vast stretches the only signs of life are camels and goats foraging for shrubs...
...those cannons just when a charge of grape went off into his chest...As one ball of grape tore Hans's head off, others burst it into fragments and hanks of his dark hair were scattered wide. His entrails were scattered over the hillside, his left leg sundered into small lumps and his right thrown away to one side amongst Texans and strangers...
Frick also blazed to a personal best of 25.64 in her leadoff leg of the 200-yd. freestyle relay, and swam a season best of 2:10.9 in the preliminary heats of the 200 fly--an event she finished 16th in last night...
...Carbone, Meier, and Mike Miao-handed coach Joe Bernal his first victory for that event in his four trips to the meet, since taking over the reins at Harvard. The winning time, 3:24.76, missed the 3:23.76 needed for NCAA's but Seelen's 51.68 on the backstroke leg earns him a career-closing trip to the meet...