Word: mens
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...known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It was in this role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money to an endless stream of visitors in trouble...
...theoretical physicist ranking with America's J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After he helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, he became one of the country's most decorated men. But he remained unknown because his honors were bestowed in secret. In those years, Sakharov believed he had a useful function: "When I began working on this terrible weapon, I felt subjectively that I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...
Leading the men in the middle distance races are Eric Rahe and Chris Woodward. Rahe paced the Crimson in the 800-meter dash at the Harvard Invitational with a time of 1:54.1, while Woodward qualified for the IC4A 1000-meter run in the B.C. meet...
Despite all this talent on the men's team, the best performer on either squad might be Meredith Rainey...
...women have a serious chance of winning it all," Mee said. "The men are looking to surprise...