Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping...
...people around me assured me he was a fixture at Wrigley Field, and his free conversation was as much a part of any game as hot dogs and scoreboards...
...started thinking about what an empty life this man would lead if it weren't for Wrigley Field and the good-natured crowed in the bleachers...
...TIME GOES ON, the questions that everyone asked as jokes a decade ago are becoming less and less moot. What will Paul McCartney be doing at 50? Touring the Catskills with Wings, maybe making guest appearances at Grossinger's. How will the generation of rockers that entered the field in the mid-sixties meet the twentieth anniversary of their debuts? Nature has solved the problem for many of them in a swift and clean way, of course, but for those who remain alive, existential crises are on the way. If these albums any indication, it will be a long, painfully...
...When I called the Boston Clamshell office the Wednesday before the rally, a member told me that Saturday's rally was not planned to be large and that Sunday's rally was going to be the Hollywood production. I feel Sunday's event lived up to this billing. The field was crowded with enthusiastic people when I left. Jonathan D. Rabinovitz...