Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marines, surround them. As the jeep comes toward them I witness something of an advance in American communication with the people of the country. A marine is passing a mine detector over the clothing and packs of the refugees. Any metal-a rifle barrel, a pistol, a clip of ammunition, maybe the parts of a radio-will presumably be spotted by the detector. Anyhow, it is better than guns and the policemen whom I have seen at work...
...million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...
...rhythmic clip-clop of hoofs tapping down Roosevelt Raceway's brown half-mile oval was smothered by a swelling roar from the stands as the six-horse field came into the final turn. With less than a quarter-mile to go, a fast-stepping brown mare named Proximity, unbeaten in her five starts this year, had not made a move out of her third-place rut along the rail...
Young Gianni Marzotto, 21, set off at a 100 m.p.h. clip, remembered passing brother Vittorio, 28, in the first hour. But he had little time for watching other drivers as he increased his speed, sometimes to 118, through the winding Apennines roads and finally thundered into Rome, the halfway mark. Enthusiastic Romans cheered and kissed him, told him he was in the lead and that Champion Biondetti's Jaguar had dropped out for emergency repairs. "For the first time I thought I might win," Gianni recalled later...
John Canepa, peppy leadoff man, paces the team in batting. Canepa has been hitting at a .467 clip...