Word: finish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped off the track. Zatopek himself was grabbing at the right side of his trunks, in obvious pain (he said later that it was a stomach-ache). The crowd of 60,000 cheered him all the way around the track, as he increased his speed, crossed the finish line 19.2 seconds ahead of the great Nurmi's best Olympic time. Zatopek's time: a record 29 minutes, 59.6 seconds...
Then in the tenth, Mills suddenly came to life. He threw a good roundhouse right and a succession of hooks. Gus went down twice. He managed to finish the fight, but lost his light heavyweight crown, and just about any chance he might have to succeed Joe Louis...
...scene at the very time Angelo* Pallante attempted to kill Palmiro Togliatti, the most dangerous Communist in Italy!" Louella's story: she and Actress Merle Oberon were on a shopping expedition when the attempted assassination took place. The tragic result: "Neither of us was able to finish the buying of gifts we hoped to take home...
...spark had been the matter of eleven dockers and a cargo of zinc oxide. The eleven had refused to finish loading the cargo last month without more pay. They said, with more anger than truth, that the zinc oxide turned them blue. Penalties for the stoppage (including loss of seven days' pay) were clapped on them. The eleven-and many another docker-thought the penalties grossly unfair. Communists eagerly sniffed their opportunity...
...York Hospital told what they had learned in an eight-year study of migraine. The most likely sufferers are reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload themselves with responsibilities and then get tense when they find that they can't finish the outsize jobs they have tackled. Their "pernicious emotional states" make the arteries in their heads swell, causing the excruciating pain of migraine...