Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came Montreal. A powerful East German team?older, bigger, stronger, better trained?swamped all comers, winning eleven of 13 events. U.S. swimmers managed to take only a single gold medal, the 400-meter freestyle relay. The defeat was so total, the humiliation so painful, that coaches hinted darkly of the victors' using illegal drugs during training, and some swimmers made unsportsmanlike cracks about the heavily muscled East German women...
After the disaster in Montreal, U.S. coaches revised their training techniques, incorporating East German innovations like relying primarily on endurance training and weight lifting...
...American fans had a lot more to cheer about. As usual, the U.S. men's team won handily, with Soviet and East German swimmers trailing badly. Meanwhile, as the competition entered its final weekend, the American women had won 19 gold medals while the East Germans had not won a single final. California's Cynthia Woodhead won three golds, as did fellow Californian Linda Jezek, who swam off with a world record in the 200-meter backstroke. She finished in 2:11.93, more than two seconds ahead of East Germany's Birgit Treiber, the former record holder and the winner...
...shortly after Einstein formulated his theory, a German colleague named Karl Schwarzschild considered one of general relativity's consequences. If a star were to become sufficiently compact and dense, Schwarzschild found, its gravity would so warp space and time around it that the star would literally enclose itself. For a celestial body of the sun's mass, the critical radius turned out to be about 3 km (2 miles). If the star shrunk beyond that, it would vanish. This so-called Schwarzschild radius, or event horizon, is in effect the black hole's boundary. Any matter crossing it simply disappears...
Never too big for his red hat, the patriarch always kept a confessional to hear the sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...