Word: zatopek
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DIED. EMIL ZATOPEK, 78, four-time Olympic gold medalist and political dissident; after a stroke; in Prague. Zatopek won three of his golds at the Helsinki Games in 1952, in the 5,000 m, the 10,000 m and--having never run one before--the marathon. Nicknamed "the Engine," Zatopek ran up to 100 miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said...