Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then the situation was critical. Strapped into stiff re-entry suits inside the 107-cu.-ft. lander, the cosmonauts could hardly move. They had food and air for perhaps three days. A surrealistic touch was added by a bag of live fish that had been used in an experiment and occupied the third seat in the lander. Mission-control engineers were concerned that ice could form inside the vehicle and freeze the cosmonauts -- and the fish -- to death...
Shot-Putter Lisovskaya, a prime example of the Soviet approach, began her programmed life at a "sports-oriented" school in her native Tashkent at age seven. She was spotted as a potential champion at 14. Coach Faina Melnik saw her during a scouting trip and persuaded her to move to Moscow as soon as she finished high school. A discus thrower at the time, she tried the shot at Melnik's suggestion and soon switched, a daring decision for an athlete already in her late teens. Within four years, helped by careful coaching and a training regimen...
...gymnastics, innovation and injury sometimes go together. That is the case with a new move that most women will be performing in Seoul. At the 1983 world championships in Budapest, Soviet Natalia Yurchenko opened the new era when she successfully debuted the round-off vault, now called the Yurchenko. The easily recognized approach entails a cartwheel onto the springboard in front of the vaulting horse, followed by a launch backward onto the horse...
...will be forbidden to perform the move at the Games because they vault onto a horse set vertically out from the launching board, making it a narrower and more dangerous target than the women's horse, which is set horizontally. But the Yurchenko is still highly risky for the women. While warming up at the Tokyo World Sports Fair in May, American Julissa Gomez bounced badly off the springboard and hit her head against the horse. Instantly paralyzed, she later lapsed into a coma in a Tokyo hospital. She is now in Houston, and it is unknown whether she will...
...virtually crushed a long-simmering rebellion of the Kurds and punished Kurdish guerrillas -- known as pesh mergas, or "those who face death" -- for collaborating with the enemy during Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. When Iran agreed to a truce on Aug. 20, the Iraqis began to move against the Kurds...