Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a Pan Am record throw of 253 ft. 5 in. "I like things fair." From the tiny Utah archer Denise Parker, 13, who won a gold medal, to the statuesque Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll, 16, teenage girls were the fairest of them all. The daughter of a German businessman who made his way to Costa Rica through Nicaragua, Poll is the biggest (6 ft. 3 in.), blondest and best freestyler in all of Central America. She won a fistful of her country's inaugural medals, including three golds, and wasn't finished...
...brought out a bright national banner with the wonderful slogan A DIRT WAGON CARRIES DIRT, BUT IT DOES NOT CARRY SHAME. There were old names too. Saving her heptathlon for the coming world championships in Rome, the regal Jackie Joyner-Kersee focused on the long jump and equaled East German Heike Drechsler's 24-ft. 5 1/2-in. world mark. With Carl Lewis standing by for his own turn at the long jump and Greg Louganis still perched on his diving pedestal, thoughts of 1984 were unavoidable...
...treaty could also prove disruptive for the NATO alliance itself. The dispute over the West German-controlled force of older Pershing missiles already underscores this problem...
...last a long time and that eventually a son is going to get called to the front. And they are simply unwilling to make that sacrifice." Since the ruptures in Iran's diplomatic ties with Britain and France, long lines of visa seekers have been forming outside the West German embassy in Tehran...
Demjanjuk stumbled repeatedly as a panel of three judges and a team of well-prepared Israeli prosecutors poked holes in his personal World War II chronology. He maintains that he was drafted into the Russian army in 1941, was captured by the Germans in 1942 and served in German POW camps until 1944, when he joined the anti-Soviet "Vlasov army" in Poland. Asked why he failed at first to tell U.S. authorities that he spent 18 months at a POW camp in Chelm, Poland, as he now insists, Demjanjuk said he forgot. When told that the Vlasov army...