Word: rumanians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Retton, a resilient child and a killer competitor of 16, whose 92 Ibs. of forthright chunkiness rises scarcely 4 ft. 9 in. from the preposterous base of a pair of size3 feet. Among her best reflexes is a snappy smile, but the hunter's look with which she fixed Rumanian Ecaterina Szabo, 17, was memorable too as fortune started Szabo off on her best apparatus and Retton on her worst. They proceeded inversely until Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed...
...doing everything perfectly," says Retton. "I imagine all the moves and go through them with the image in my mind." The following day, the spunky Retton led the U.S. team through a stylish and rousingly high-flying performance. The Americans could not quite match the lavishly talented and seasoned Rumanian team, but their second-place finish won them a silver medal. It was the first team medal ever won by the U.S. in women's international gymnastics competition. The moment fully lived up to Retton's expectations: "It was just like I dreamed it, the excitement, the tension...
...preliminaries and two finals over just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running Soviet Zamira Zaitseva into the ground. Boycotters Zaitseva and Tatyana Kazankina would be missed more in Los Angeles if that picture were not so fresh and fabulous...
...older is the main task of the million or so agitatori attached to the Soviet Union's 176,982 electoral commissions. During the 60-day preparation for the elections, teams of two or three agitatori visit every household, from the fruit farms of Moldavia on the Rumanian border to the Eskimo fishing villages of Kamchatka on the Pacific. Some ward-level political banter takes place during these house calls. Irate voters are likely to grumble, "The hot-water system doesn't work here" or "When are we going to get a bigger apartment?" Since all urban dwellings...
...most of the war years in Moscow attending the Higher Party School, an ideological training ground for party officials. In 1953 he received a diploma from a teachers' college, the Kishinev Pedagogical Institute. The luckiest break in his career came in 1948, when he was sent to the former Rumanian province of Moldavia, where a frenzied "Sovietization" campaign was in progress. Chernenko became the chief of Agitation and Propaganda, or Agitprop. Leonid Brezhnev subsequently was named first secretary of the Moldavian branch of the party. Not long after Brezhnev took over the Soviet party leadership from Nikita Khrushchev...