Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third man in history to crack the four-minute mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...
...Sound Barrier. In Chicago, two burglars who broke into an electronics firm were startled when a booming voice said, -'Good evening, gentlemen. We remind you that this place is electronically guarded. We suggest that you turn around and disappear." fled emptyhanded when loudspeakers all over the building began shouting, "Burglars! Burglars! Call the police...
South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom last week tore down the last big constitutional barrier to one-party racial control over his divided land. He had already packed South Africa's High Court bench, by adding five new judges favorable to the government; now he pressed through Parliament a bill endorsing his court-packing decree, and ensuring that a quorum of the new court would be able to override the South African constitution...
...Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, and clings tenaciously, draining the host's body juices until it is satiated, or the fish dies...
Originally a saltwater dweller, the sea lamprey moved up the fresh water of the St. Lawrence and into Lake Ontario to spawn, then developed a fresh-water species. The building of Canada's Welland Canal provided a detour around the natural barrier of Niagara Falls, and in the past 20 years the pests have begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped...