Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is yes. His reasons for delay are partly financial; as an avowed candidate, Talmadge would have to meet expenses for setting up headquarters, hiring a secretarial staff-and buying his own television time. But Talmadge is in the race to the finish. During a recent speaking trip to South Carolina's Clemson Agricultural College, he confided to a small group: "I've been running for the last six months...
Sections of the track were periodically removed so that dashmen and hurdlers would have a clear lane to their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
Coup de Grace. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Cab Driver Perry Tartas reported to police that three men held him up, got away with $22 while one, left behind to finish the job, muttered before he ran to join his confederates: "I'll give you a break; I'm supposed to slug you; pretend you're hurt...
...awesome energy. No matter how late he stays up at night, he gets to his office at 7 a.m. As mayor of Belo Horizonte and later as governor of his home state of Minas Gerais, he undertook extensive public-works programs-and carried them out. "What I start, I finish," he says...
...this terrible moment the film says something big and dark and quiet about the weight of fate; the pity is that it goes on to make the usual Shubert finish about the might of right...