Word: ponomareva
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...specialist in hurling the discus a country mile (168 ft. 8½ in. in 1952 Olympics), burly Schoolteacher Nina Ponomareva, 29, was herself hurled-right off the U.S.S.R. track and field team. Bounced with her, for "egotistical and uncomradely conduct," was another chunky champ, Shot Putter Galina Zybina. For Nina, disgrace was nothing new: visiting London for a track meet in 1956, she raised hackles and eyebrows by walking out of a shop with five filched hats under her arm. later coughed up $8.82 in court costs to get free of stern British...
While U.S. men piled up medals, U.S. women did well to stay close behind women from the Eastern European countries. Czechoslovakia's Olga Fikotova, a 24-year-old medical student, spun the discus 170 ft. 1½ in. to whip Russian "hat girl" Nina Ponomareva with ease...
Insisting to the last that the whole ugly business was a frame-up engineered by disgruntled Czarist émigrés, officials at the Soviet embassy in London came reluctantly to the conclusion that British justice could not be sidetracked. As Olympic Discus Thrower Nina Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
...store detectives insisted just as stoutly that she had scooped them up under cover of a paper bag from another store. Citing this "remarkable conflict of evidence," Barrister Griffith-Jones put the question directly to Nina: "Did you steal any of those hats?" "Nyet," said Nina Ponomareva. But the court thought different. "Having considered all the evidence,' said Magistrate Clyde Wilson, "I must find the case proved ... I realize the fallibility of human nature. The hats displayed constitute a considerable temptation to many women. I think the interests of justice will be served if I discharge the prisoner absolutely...
Smiling tentatively at first, Nina Ponomareva let her features relax in a broad grin when she realized at last that the judge's words meant she could go home. Two hours later she was aboard the Russian steamer Vyacheslav Molotov, bound for the happy land where everyone is guilty, guilty...
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