Word: matting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rick Kief humbled the Quakers' Jim Hursong, 8-4, for the three-point regular decision, but Andy McNerney's 26-1 mauling of his 134-lb. Penn opponent stole the show. The Quaker's shoulder blades seemed to be flat on the mat on eight or nine occasions during the six-minute match, but the referee refused to award the fall, and McNerney had to be content with the five point superior decision...
...earlier suspended all military aid to El Salvador pending the outcome of an investigation by a Salvadoran commission into the murders of four American missionaries last month. Despite the lack of evidence that any investigation was even going forward, Washington moved swiftly to resume $5 million in nonlethal matériel-jeeps, trucks and transport helicopters, with U.S. technicians to maintain them...
...more than it usually does. He could take a punch better than anyone--partly because punching his head was like punching a provolone--and he had a left hook that could leave even Sugar Ray Robinson, maybe the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time, quivering on the mat like a dead leaf too long on the tree. He came out of the tough neighborhoods of the Bronx, and when it was over, he had an old middleweight title, a divorce, a bad morals rap in Miami, a gut like an ocean basin, and a comedy routine that...
...feared another the with B.U.--the third in three years. The grapplers built up a Jead of 21-9, and cliched the tie in a key decision by Andy McNerney. Wrestling at 134 pounds,McNerney found himself losing 2-0 before opening up with some tough maneuvers on the mat. After the wrestlers traded takedowns and escapes for a 3-3 tie, McNernet muscled a fast reverse for a 5-3 lead. Wrestling his toughest in the third period. McNerney scored a pivotal takedown and flipped Gary Abbott for a three-point near-fall and the 10-4 victory...
...Paul Le Mat's Melvin has a body too big for his skin. He stumbles through life swerving away from disaster, chasing wives, ex-wives and future wives with sincere apologies for misdeeds great and small. He spends too much, makes too little, never avoids the repossessors for long. Even though he appears in nearly every scene in the movie, Melvin is always filmed from a distance--no one would learn more from a close...