Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage of scrambling for subsistence money, recognition and enough new talent to broaden the sport's base. In non-Olympic years, the U.S. fencers who go to meets are not always the country's best; sometimes they are simply the best of those who can afford the trip. Before Angelakis made the 1980 team, her travels were financed for a year with $3,000 raised by the Greek Orthodox Church of Peabody. The odds are that the U.S. is not yet able to produce an international fencing star, but Angelakis does not believe the odds. She thinks...
Unfortunately, like France, Cameroon's best goalie couldn't make the trip. Thomas N'kono, who minded the goal in the World Cup two years ago, became a national hero and internationally recognized star. That fame has, however, taken him away from his native country and he now stars for Barcelona of Spain's First Division...
Team captain Terje Kojedal says the country was somewhat ashamed of the team for being selected as a substitute and that he and the other players want especially to do well to prove the doubting Svens back home that they deserve to have made the trip...
...officials of oil-rich Kuwait, led by Defense Minister Sheik Salem al-Sabah, flew to Moscow last week on a ten-day arms-buying trip. High on the Kuwaiti shopping list were sophisticated SA-8 surface-to-air missiles, as well as shoulder-fired SA-7's, as substitutes for the Stinger anti-aircraft weapons that the Reagan Administration declined to supply last month on the grounds that Congress would veto the deal. The Soviets seemed happy to oblige: the two parties initialed a weapons-purchase agreement, although no details were announced...
...these counselors, they just won't give up. This week they took us on a field trip to see a couple of "nonviolent" movies for kids. This one picture, Wolfgang Petersen's The Neverending Story, it's more like a movie for wimps. Here's this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then...