Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small part to help end apartheid in South Africa. As part of a series of errands I needed to run for Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, I tried to take a cab into South Boston. Insensitive to the fact that racial tensions still run high in the section of Boston made infamous by its violent anti-busing protests of the 1970s, I gave the address to my cab driver, who was Black...
...congregation scrambled through doors and windows, several parishioners hustled Aristide out a side door and into an adjacent school. But eleven people were killed in the melee, and more than 80 wounded. Among the injured: a badly skewered woman who, six weeks ahead of schedule, delivered by Cesarean section a baby girl bleeding from multiple wounds...
...down to it, there are only so many ways to skin a cat." NBC officials have discussed, however, downplaying one oft criticized feature of ABC's Olympic coverage: the sometimes excessive home-country boosterism. Says Eskridge: "Everybody will do his best to keep our people from becoming a rooting section...
...might think the world's greatest all-around swimmer must hail from one of the shrines of the chlorinated In crowd -- Leipzig, Mission Viejo or Moscow. Not so. Tamas Darnyi, 21, lives in Buda, the historic section of Budapest. The Hungarian's specialty is the demanding individual medley, in which he holds the world record for both 400-meter and 200-meter events. Darnyi has won every major meet he has entered since 1985. The medley requires phenomenal skill in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. The shy bachelor, who was named Hungary's Athlete of the Year in '87, will...
Like Matt Biondi plowing through the water, his face ablaze with ferocity and ambition, the athletes are bound for Seoul. In a special section, TIME spotlights the five-ring extravaganza, from the most exciting competitors and competitions to the most intriguing bits of lore and trivia. -- Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Decathlete Daley Thompson are coming to assert a kind of athletic kingship. -- Swimmers Biondi and Janet Evans have appointments in Korea with a hoard of medals -- the question being just how many. -- For a swarm of mitey gymnasts, the contest beyond gold seems to be for the affection...