Word: comanecis
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...under fly balls for the New York Mets. There is a natural season, a range of ages, for athletes in most sports. Russia's Olga Korbut, a gold medal gymnast in 1972 at the age of 17, appeared sadly middle-aged four years later. Rumania's Nadia Comaneci, whose gymnastic performance at the 1976 Olympics received perfect scores, seemed almost hefty a year later. Swimmers age more quickly than moths...
...epicenter of the quake was roughly 100 miles north of Bucharest, in the Vrancea mountain range of the breathtakingly beautiful Transylvanian Alps. One town near the center: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, home of Olympic Gymnast Nadia Comaneci. (Comaneci's whereabouts after the quake were unknown, but she was presumed safe.) The area is well known to seismologists as an active earthquake zone; as many as 200 minor tremors may be recorded annually. Rumania's worst previous earthquake, in fact, centered on the same spot in 1940, damaging the same major centers and leaving about 400 dead...
...Petersen (honorable mention to Jon Garrity), he was the runaway winner of the "Hard Luck Harry" Award, B.C.'s Paul Skid-played Nadia Comaneci in the cage, stopping almost everything in sight, and several shots that couldn't be seen...
...Nadia Comaneci...
...wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year lay good Karma/ On our White House-tenant farmer...