Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to getting thrown out of ball games. Last week, for a change, he was thrown out of his job. "This time," said Bobby, "I broke the oldest rule in the book. When the team doesn't win, the manager has to go." The eighth-place Pirates will finish the season under Coach Danny Murtaugh...
...months. This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead of Bob Gibbs...
...Yorker and found the story. It concerned an improbable couple named Elgin and Caroline, telling how they fell in love and later indulged themselves libidinously in Adams House. The story was subtly and liberally sprinkled with naked bodies, passionate embraces and the like. Vag could not bring himself to finish it, so he looked at the ending and put the magazine down...
...Galloping into the homestretch, Jockey Doug Dodson urged four-year-old Manassas into the lead, held off the final drive of Swoon's Son and flashed across the finish line the 6½-to-1 winner of last week's $125,400 Arlington Handicap on the grass at Arlington Park outside Chicago...
...Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course. "We went looking for the fastest winds and quickest course to Honolulu," noted Nimble Navigator Ullman. ¶ In the women's finals of the U.S. Clay...