Word: pyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympic village at Käpylä (where all but the women's contingents, the Russian team and their satellites were quartered), clouds of Finnish autograph hunters buzzed around the visiting athletes like hungry mosquitoes: "Sign pliss. Your name, pliss." Next to the big U.S. team (350 men and women), neatly dressed in their blue Olympic blazers, grey slacks and gabardine hats, the squad that attracted the most attention was the closemouthed Russian team, some 400 strong, which was constantly convoyed by 300 stony-faced "officials." Making their first Olympic appearance since the Czarist days of 1912 (when they...