Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greet every Korean judoka -- as it is the confusion. TV likes the orderly. It cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies with...
...Olympics, she came in ninth. In the 1986 European Championships, she came in fourth. In 1987, at the age of 26, West German heptathlete Birgit Dressel was dead, the victim of her body's reaction to the profusion of drugs she took in order to be a great competitor...
Gleason, who was granted tenure without a Ph.D. after he had solved the notoriously difficult Hilbert problem, focuses his academic work on topology and space mathematics. David Hilbert, a German mathmetician, proposed a series of about 10 problems he considered the most pressing math questions unsolved at the turn of the century. Math scholars are still working on solving some of the problems, which define much of 20th-century math...
During the U.S. rotation on the uneven parallel bars, alternate Rhonda Faehn stood by to remove the springboard after Kelly Garrison-Steves' mount. Concerned that any movement might distract her teammate's concentration, Faehn squatted and watched the routine through to its completion. Minutes later, East German Ellen Berger, a rules official, dug into the book and emerged with an often overlooked regulation that specifically prohibits coaches -- and apparently other noncompetitors -- from standing on the raised podium during a performance. "A rule is a rule," Berger insisted and pressed for a 0.5 penalty. A rules committee dominated by East bloc...
...gymnastics, officials were also in the thick of the fight. Judge Ellen Berger, a pin-eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi. When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal...