Word: medvedev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against superior muscle, that was the best morale could do. In the final competition in Manhattan. Russia's Heavyweight (more than 198½ Ibs.) Alexei Medvedev, his big bay window leaking over his belt, posed pensively before the bar bells as if thought alone could lift them from the floor. Then he stopped thinking, started straining, and hefted a total of 1,080 Ibs. in three heaves, to lead his teammates to one more 4-3 victory. Said the Russians' political chaperon as he accepted congratulations for his boys' clean sweep: "I hope you have...