Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gonzales to sound a loftier note. Anticipating a medal-whining performance, East Los Angeles' favorite son was talking accomplishment, not three-fight contracts. "I'm going to wear that gold medal with pride, and then I'm going to put it around my mother's neck," he said. "She deserves it more than me." In a tournament in which it seemed that the amateur ideal of pure sport had taken more than a few shots to the head, this was refreshing indeed. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Los Angeles
...after taking off, and "lost the water" (lost track of her position in the air). She landed badly, and the impact enlarged what she figures was a small cut on her shin to an ugly eight-inch gash, whose scar is still there. Seufert bruised the back of her neck severely in hitting the water on a 10-meter dive, later reinjured herself the same way, and eventually noticed a tingling in her fingers. A neurologist told her that if she continued to land on her neck, not her head, she could become paralyzed...
...they left the arena, Retton had sneaked a close look at the Rumanians' medals, and told U.S. Women's Coach Don Peters, "Theirs are shinier than ours." Two nights later, everything that glittered was around Retton's neck. She won the gold medal in the all-around championship, the most coveted prize in gymnastics, since it marks the winner as the finest gymnast in the world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim...
Because of a technicality, Wilson was spared prosecution for the murder contract he had put out on his hated former wife, the mother of his two children. "Take her off somewhere and break her neck," he told a prospective hitman, who went to the authorities. Wilson specified that he wanted Barbara Wilson's corpse stripped of her jewelry, especially her big diamond ring. "It's my good-luck piece," he said. "I want it back." Asked what he would pay for the job of killing her, he replied, "She's worth...
...adds to the burden Third World borrowers face by raising the cost of the dollars they need to repay their debts. It also has been punishing U.S. farmers and companies whose products have a hard time competing with low-priced foreign goods. "Exporters are just taking it in the neck," says Jerry Jasinowski, Chief Economist for the National Association of Manufacturers. Indeed, U.S. trade deficits that could reach $130 billion this year have cost some 1.2 million U.S. jobs since...