Word: 55th
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...have spikes. Johnson's only real competition in the 400, world-record holder Butch Reynolds, pulled a hamstring in his semifinal, so the thrill of the final lay in the widening distance between Johnson and his rivals--it was like watching Secretariat in the Belmont. Unpressed, he won his 55th straight 400 in 43.39, an Olympic record just 0.2 sec. off Reynolds' world standard. "I'll get that record eventually," said Johnson, pulling on a T shirt that read DANGER ZONE. "But now I think about the 200. Danger Zone--that's where I have...
Among record-setting classes were the Class of 1996, which totaled $44,900; the Class of 1941, which more than doubled the previous record for a 55th reunion; the Class of 1946, with close to $16 million; the Class of 1971, which reached $10.4 million; the Class of 1981, which raised the previous record for a 15th reunion from $1.6 million to $2.5 million; and the Class of 1991 which boasted...
...director who loved film so recklessly and, in his first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young Welles did more than anticipate, somehow, his disappointment and decline. Through Kane he revealed how we all, as we age, become smudged parodies...
...patience will be rewarded. Frazier picks up momentum when he hits the 19th century. By that time his forebears were living in Ohio. Several of them joined the 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry to fight Confederates in the Civil War. They saw action in two notable Union defeats, the battles of Second Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and survived. Some of the best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair...
Bone's goal made the score 2-1 in the 55th minute, and Harvard never really looked in the game again...