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...always audible. It recalls the memorable time when Katie, who must have been about ten, wriggled under the stall door at the railway station bathroom. "Anne tried to pull her back, then went after her, only she was heavier and got stuck halfway and Katie was kicking her shoulder. When Jenny came with the dime, they couldn't get the door open, with Anne wedged under it, Katie still shoving her with her feet, just to be mean...
...young, you think you're the center of the universe. When you're older, you realize you're just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years at Centre Court, King acknowledged, "Yes, I took a last look over my shoulder-just in case." But she will probably return. "I'll be dreaming of winning Wimbledon when I'm 80." Evert Lloyd is sure to be back. "I've always bounced back after a disappointment," Chris says with that familiar glint of purpose. Navratilova is pretty difficult to beat...
With 50 meters left to go at the USA/Mobil Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis, Carl Lewis glanced over his shoulder. The view was sweet. He was demolishing an Olympic-caliber field in the 200-meter sprint, and he was doing it at a world-record pace. Then, a wide smile cracking his chiseled features, Lewis tossed away the record by throwing his arms into the muggy night air ten yards before the finish. The crowd of nearly 11,000 roared in delight at the gesture...
...triumphal return in June 1979. His first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
...dollars of damage and the loss of 16 homes in Utah and in western Nevada, where a mucky avalanche off aptly named Slide Mountain caused the death of one man, the Rev. Joseph Valenzuela. Said one of Valenzuela's parishioners, Tim Miller, who survived with a separated shoulder and cracked ribs: "I served quite a few months in Viet Nam, and I'd rather do that than go through something like this again...