Word: stadion
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...Zurich, Switzerland's business center, the media guide brags that the city built the Letzigrund Stadion just in time. That hurried effort produced a single-level doughnut of a stadium stuffed with 30,000 supporters for France's matchup with Romania. Neither the French fans not their team seemed all that impressed, and the latter played that way. France was pathetic in the 0-0 stalemate. If this game were a cuisine, it would be English, and no one would eat it. Sure, it's difficult to play against the Romanians. The men in gold stacked 9 or 10 players...
...Over in Austria, there was a bit of excitement when Polish and German fans exchanged the usual pregame punches, but this is no England-Germany, and once the proceedings started in the Worthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, the Germans got down to business. And they were all business. Poland had a chance to score 36 seconds into the match when German keeper Jens Lehman bundled into his own defender as he pushed out a cross that rolled invitingly in the box. But Jacek Krzynówek launched one over the bar. From then on, the Poles were weaker than...
...What do the words futbol, stadion and patriot have in common?" he asks. Hands shoot up across the classroom, but the pupils are silent, and there is no squirming to catch the teacher's attention. Alexei Grigoryevich points to a girl in the third row, who rises to explain that all these words are of foreign origin. The teacher draws back a curtain covering part of the blackboard, disclosing a chart of verbs. Asked to explain where the accent falls in various verb forms, students respond by reciting grammatical rules. Invariably, they answer in complete sentences. Each pupil...
Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...
ATHENS, April 10.- The interest in today's sports at the Stadion excelled that of any previous day, as it was the day for the foot race from Marathon to Athens. The fact that the three Greeks were the first ones in this race has stirred up the whole population to the deepest enthusiasm...