Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack...
...Denmark, joined the U.S. Army, and reached the Korean front two days before Christmas Day 1950. Only a few weeks later his company (reconnaissance, 7th Infantry Division) was trapped behind the enemy lines. For 24 hours the outfit fought to break through the surrounding Chinese and make a dash for the town of Hoeng-song, which was held by Dutch allies. It is hard to believe that without this experience behind him, Author Anderson could have brought off so knowledgeable a performance as Your Own Beloved Sons. At any rate, it is the skillfully exploited background for the most impressive...
Special interest will center on the performance of Norm Bruck in the dash. Bruck, who has improved greatly since the beginning of the year, is being counted on to take up slack in the outdoor dash events...
Last week, French Anderson announced that he had moved over to the Linear B numerals of ancient Crete-with such symbols as a perpendicular stroke for one, a dash for ten, a circle for 100, a circle with four spikes...
...Director Henry King has chosen to smear it pretty thickly on the screen. Goo is, of course, a major ingredient of every Hammerstein libretto, but in Oklahoma!, for instance-even in the movie version, which starred the same two singers (TIME, Oct. 24)-the sentiment was cut with a dash of comic bitters. In this production the players play it so coy that they sometimes seem close to baby talk. Actor MacRae sings pleasantly, though, and so do Shirley Jones and Robert Rounseville...