Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered 13 other eight-thousanders in the past 16 years, all without oxygen, Messner had completed mountaineering's grand slam...
Merengue technique involves no free-form violence, like slam dancing, and no shin-splinting fanciness, as in the mambo. It is less taxing than the tango, which caught on anew with the Broadway success of Tango Argentino, a show that spawned a fast-stepping tour and any number of gift certificates for dancing lessons. "Merengue's not a real complicated step pattern," says Lynne Frazier of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Burlingame, Calif. "You're not fighting to keep up with your feet...
Although his vehicle was under heavy machine-gun fire and was rocked by at least one grenade explosion, Pinochet's driver managed to slam the car into reverse, whip around in a U-turn, and speed out of the circle of fire and back to El Melocoton. All but one carload of bodyguards stayed behind to shoot it out with the guerrillas. When the battle was over, five security men were dead and eleven wounded. Despite a widespread manhunt by army units and the paramilitary carabineros, all the attackers, whose number was estimated at between twelve and 40, slipped away...
...have survived a slump and taken a six-game lead--eight in the lost column--in the American League East. With miracle finishes like Rich Gedman's pinch hit grand slam Sunday, the home team may actually have regained the blessings of the baseball gods who deserted it so many years ago when it traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees, ending the first dynasty of baseball Boston...
...course, sometimes post-modernist can be different from anything that the students have experienced previously. Nelson says of one teacher, "She's amazing. I come back with bruises." And Keller says that in one of her classes, "The teacher has you slam your body against the floor and do other bizarre things...