Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corks . . . The early second-run lead went to Switzerland's Vreni Schneider, 23, an all-eventer who is strongest in slalom and GS. She is tied for the World Cup point lead with Figini. Schneider had accomplished nothing so far in the Games, and she was discouraged. Earlier, the Swiss coaches had yanked her out of the super-G lineup. She had been tight on her first GS run. She told herself to "do something fantastic or get out of racing. I went...
...knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead of Yugoslavia's Mateja Svet. Only four other women alpine skiers in history have won two golds in the same Games. Now, on the powerful Swiss team, she was first among equals...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese of a memo he received suggesting a way to get Israel to guarantee the safety of a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. Last week Meese's lawyers released the declassified 1985 memo from E. Robert Wallach, the Attorney General's former personal attorney. What his Swiss-cheese memory had failed to retain was alarming...
...eight bronze figures (women and men) strain to support the archway, athletes milling in and out of the sunshine wore similar expressions. "We've been babied so much," sighed Ruben Gonzalez, the Argentine luger from Texas, "it's going to be hard to go back to the real world." Swiss Bobsledder Andre Kiser said, "The Canadian people have been so warm. Maybe that's why there's no snow...
...finale, Debi Thomas bobbled to third as Katarina Witt held her figure- skating title and a plucky Canadian, Elizabeth Manley, sparkled her way to silver. Tomba la Bomba and a quiet Swiss, Vreni Schneider, each zigzagged to double skiing gold. And Bonnie the Blur cheered frequently downcast Americans with a speed- skating world record plus a bronze for good measure...