Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robertson seems sure to give the Big Red big points in the broad jump and whatever dash he enters, as well as the low hurdles. In addition, Cornell has Art Boland and Earl McHugh, both outstanding dash...
...winner of the Pierian Sodality Concerto Contest, was soloist in the next work, Liszt's Piano Concerto in E. With his big tone and sure technique, Lubow was in full control of the brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave the pianist all the support he needed...
...Jordan, with censorship lifted, came the story of how 21-year-old King Hussein snatched control of his desert kingdom from under the noses of the Redlined leaders of the Palestinian Arabs, who outnumber his Bedouins two to one. It was a wild story that combined the dash of a Latin American army coup with the wile of an Arabian Nights adventure...
Died. Bernard J. (Bernie) Wefers, 84, known in the 18903 as the "world's fastest human" for his unofficial record (9.4 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash (shaved to 9.3 sec. in 1948) and national champion in the 100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes in 1895, '96 and '97; in New York City...
Earlier, Landau had equalled the Harvard record of 9.8 seconds in the 100-yard dash. His record was disallowed because of a ten-mile per hour wind at his back. Sandy Dodge placed second. Princeton's Bob Brown handed Landau his first hurdles loss of the season, as he lunged across the finish line to win the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.3 seconds...