Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slalom, Anne put the pressure on Penny, darted through the first steep, 53-gate course in a blazing time of 54 sec. that put her first and left her U.S. rival dangling in seventh place. Nor did Anne let up on the second course, finishing in 55.6 sec. Hell-bent to save her glory, Penny fell and bumped far down the slope on the seat of her pants. Penny ended up a dejected 33rd, and cool Anne Heggtveit was F.I.S. champion. "If I could have stood up, I would have been world champion," shrugged Penny. "But I couldn...
Left out of the Olympics because not enough nations showed interest in their hell-bent sport, Monti and his fellow bobsledders gathered at Lake Placid, N.Y. to show what they could do. (Lake Placid's run is a vestige of the 1932 Winter Olympics, and the only run in North America.) As the new boy on the course, Monti dutifully made two trial runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close...
...only to be handsomely vindicated when Mao Tse-tung himself ordered the economic revolution of the communes 18 months ago. Now he complains that the critics dragged out against him are "new names" unworthy of his stature, and adds defiantly: "I will never capitulate to those critics who are bent on bringing others to submission by force and not by reasoning...
...Florida breeze soughing in the pines by the stable at 7:30 a.m. was damp, and the bent old man in the high-top black shoes wore a sweater under his coat. He sat on a folding chair in the center of a walking ring at Hialeah and watched with faded blue eyes as the boys cooled his horses after their workouts. At 85, hunched by spinal arthritis and wracked by asthma. Sunny Jim ("Mr. Fitz") Fitzsimmons last week was starting the 76th year of one of racing's most remarkable careers. "The day I got my first...
...pressed against a nearby fence ("Howya feeling, Mr. Fitz?" "I'm feeling fine now"). Then Groom Wendel Griffith brought in Progressing, and Mr. Fitz set to work. Progressing began to act up badly. "Stop trying to put your paw in Wendel's pocket," said Mr. Fitz. He bent under the fidgeting horse, tapped him lightly on the knee with his wooden cane and scolded: "Stop that!" Progressing stopped it. "Maybe he just wants to run," said Mr. Fitz hopefully...