Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...athletes who run the dashes have it pretty easy. All they have to do is blast out of the blocks, boom along full-bore for 100, 200, 400 meters. Once in a while, someone breaks a record. But a record mile takes a curious kind of teamwork: two or three evenly matched runners harrying and extending each other until finally, in that last agonizing sprint to the tape, one man finds some unknown reserve of energy and will power. Poor Peter Snell. At 25, the burly New Zealander is so much better than anyone else that he may never know...
...much zest that when she sings the blues (Supper Time), they sound strictly temporary. Her special forte is in kindling the first flying sparks of an affair (People) and feeding the quickening flames with tenderness (I'm All Smiles) or wit (When in Rome, Love Is a Bore...
...chase, but the rebels were nowhere to be found. It remained only to clear the debris from Bienhoa's strip-blackened hulks of the wrecked planes, the bodies of the dead from the barracks, and the few dud mortar shells that had fallen without exploding. Ironically, they bore the marking "Made in USA, 1944" and were apparently part of the booty captured by the Communists when the French surrendered...
While curious about the effect of Goldwater's candidacy on the two-party system, Portlist confesses that abstractions of this sort usually bore him. "The party with the superior nominee and the wiser platform should get as large a majority as possible. If the conservatives can't get a better man than Goldwater to represent them, I don't think their philosophy can be worth much.... Democracy works best when the best man gets a clear mandate for his program. Johnson deserves a big endorsement...
There were soft spots in the Harvard game, but the team bore little resemblance to the gang that got battered by Dartmouth, 48-0, a week ago. It had to be admitted too, that last-place Penn didn't look much like Dartmouth...