Word: superbness
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...Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week of delays caused by weather, Klammer fell and pulled a groin muscle. Johnson began calling him a nose picker...
...really going to miss her," Coach Nancy Hogan said afterwards. "She's an exemplary player with superb leadership qualities and she works extremely hard...
...distance widened between Challenger and the stiff, toylike figure, McCandless bubbled with superlatives. "Beautiful," "Super," "Superb," he kept telling mission controllers in Houston, adding, as if they did not already know, "We sure have a nice flying machine here." The excursion began while the shuttle was still in the earth's shadow and ended 90 minutes later, about the time it takes the shuttle to make one pass around the earth. Slowing down in front of Challenger's windshield, McCandless asked: "Hey, you going to want the windows washed or anything while I'm out here?" Skipper...
...really. The East Germans, who have dominated bobsledding for the past several years, had quietly made some innovations of their own, notably a highly stable independent front suspension on a fairly conventional-looking sled, and their superb No. 2 team of Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer took the gold medal Saturday. Another East German bob took the silver medal. The Soviets and one of their cigarskis won the bronze, however. For their team and all the others (including the Americans, who dragged in a dreary 15th), the next move was back to the drawing board. It is a good...
...slower, less-experienced Canadians held the mighty Soviets scoreless for more than half the game by dropping four players back into their own zone, allowing the Soviets to control play but never giving them wide-open opportunities. When the Soviets got in range, goalie Mario Gosselin was superb...