Word: witte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California (75-87, AL West, tied for sixth): Johnny Ray is an Angel, so is Chili Davis (.250, 24 HR, 76 RBI) and Dan Petry (9-7). Mike Witt leads the Angel staff, but will reliever DeWayne Bulce hold the Cal pen? The Angels will need good years from Brian Downing (29 HR, 77 RBI) and Wally Joyner. Best player: Joyner...
...their skating tug-of-pulchritude, Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas bared their claws and other whatnot. Referring to no one in particular, Witt observed, "I think every man prefers looking at a well-built woman to someone else who is the shape of a rubber ball." Thomas declared, "I think I have a great body." But the silly argument dissolved into stark drama. Thomas stumbled to a stunned third and Witt...
...that was not quite the case two days earlier. As Thomas finished her short program, she clapped her hands together in triumph. Then came the scores and the boos. Thomas' marks for technical merit were high, but her grades for artistic presentation were much lower than those for Katarina Witt. Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas' rival. "We don't want this political nonsense," he said. "We just want the best skater...
Those who agreed with McGowan's charge pointed out that the Czech judge had given Thomas her lowest mark and that the East German and Soviet judges had given Witt her highest marks. Yet Witt's coach could also find reason to decry the skating rink's cold war: the U.S. judge gave Witt her lowest score, Thomas her highest. Anyone looking to prove that the voting always split along East- West lines, however, would run into uncomfortable details, such as the fact that Britain scored Witt higher than Thomas...
...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...