Word: broken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home-run honors with the Cincinnati Reds (16 in 1901) and the Detroit Tigers (seven in 1908). His total of 312 triples set a record that has yet to be broken-even Willie Mays, now in his 18th season, has only...
Older than the oldest broken hearts, newer than the newest broken dreams...
...withstood the test of flying feet as stubbornly as Armin Hary's world record of 10 sec. flat for the 100-meter dash-set by the West German Olympian in 1960 and tied since by nine other sprinters. Last week Hary's Deutsche mark was not only broken but absolutely devalued at the A.A.U. championship in Sacramento, Calif. In eight 100-meter races-four heats, two semifinals, the final, and a runoff for one berth in this week's Olympic trials-no fewer than ten competitors equaled Hary's time, and three were officially clocked...
...Then the timers came under attack: "I was watching their hands," insisted one onlooker, "and I saw some of the fastest fingers in the West." Maybe. But in the cases of Greene, Hines and Smith, an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken Mary's mark. Their times were therefore submitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation for official recognition...
...thing." Even the reality of violence in the ghetto is being dramatized; last month Washington's Gallery of Modern Art put on view 66 pieces of sculpture assembled by Los Angeles Artists Noah Purifoy and Judson Powell from three tons of charred wood, stained plaster, bent wire, broken dolls and burnt-out machinery culled from the wreckage of the 1965 Watts riots...