Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break his own world decathlon record in the Olympics last week, Bob Mathias, the U.S.'s one-man track team, felt "pretty licked" after the first chilly, overcast day. He took second in the 100-meter dash, then won the shotput and the 400-meter run in his fastest time, 50.2 sec. In the high jump he placed third with a 6-ft.-2.81-in. leap, a shade off his best ever. But in the broad jump he pulled a thigh muscle and placed sixth. At day's end he was running 27 points behind the record pace...
...Australia's Marjorie ("The Lithgow Flash") Jackson, who doubled in the 200-meter and 100-meter sprints, equaling the world 100-meter mark of 11.5 sec. ¶ Andy Stanfield, who tied Jesse Owens' 1936 Olympic record of 20.7 sec. in the 200-meter dash to lead a U.S. sweep of the event...
...Dash Up. Getting ready for Salcantay, blond Marcus Broennimann, 28, a mining engineer, and leathery Felix Marx, 48, a foundry technician, bought 1,600 ft. of rope, feather-lined suits, three tents, sleeping bags, canned milk, chocolate, dried fruit and special concentrated food. At the mountain city of Huancayo, they loaded the gear and Broennimann's plump bride Susan into a pickup truck, and drove 530 miles to ancient Cusco...
...Manhattan College's Lindy Remigino, who won the 100-meter dash in a photo-finish with Jamaica's Herb McKenley and Britain's Emanuel McDonald-Bailey. Time for all three sprinters...
...religion for his theme and a priest for his hero, he faces as hard a problem as fiction can pose. His hero must be a man of faith-and if that faith is to ring true, the novelist cannot, like Homer or Hemingway, give his hero the sort of dash that enlivens the worldling in fiction. His moral lapses are less endurable than in another man; ultimately, and foreseeably, he must prove his mettle by self-denial...