Word: finished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kick that started the crowd bellowing with delight. Delany sailed toward the front, but Ibbotson streaked across the line 10 yds. in the lead. His time: 3:57.2, smashing the old 3:58 world record set by Australia's John Landy in 1954. In the first four-man finish under four minutes, Delany was clocked at 3:58.8, Jungwirth at 3:59.1 and England's Ken Wood...
...concentrate the eerie light exactly where he wanted it. He brandished up to 25 brushes at a sitting, most of them not much thicker than an eyelash, applied them to a palette consisting of little mounds of paint no bigger than a pimple. It took two years to finish the portrait...
...great race. Coming into the homestretch, Sweden's Dan Waern led by three meters. Then Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo, Olavi Salonen and Olavi Salsola all nickered past. Almost as one man, the three Finns sprinted across the line. Ten minutes later, after studying the photo finish, the judges announced the astounding news: all three had broken the old record of 3:40.6, Salsola finishing first in 3:40.2, Salonen second in the same time, and Vuorisalo third...
...voting with their feet," i.e., staying away. Movies, almost the only entertainment most Chinese can afford (admission: 10?) are improved, thanks to a "trend away from the heavily propagandized production." In China's feverish attempt to educate its illiterate masses, schools are so crowded that students who finish one grade have to work on farms until there is room in the next...
...have played together for years. With a lazy, slushy beat, the band swung into A Ghost of a Chance, faded while 14-year-old Andrew Marsala launched an intricately woven alto-sax solo, then came back strong and brassy, only to fade again before Marsala's languorous solo finish. Although some of the band members could scarcely reach the floor with their feet, they never lost the instinctive surefire phrasing that produces the big band feel. The audience gave them the first standing ovation in the festival's history. Said one jazzman: "I thought they would be good...