Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indianapolis 500, Arizona Auto Racer Jimmy Bryan had time to chew up only three cigars while he wheeled around the steeply banked track at Monza, Italy, and won Europe's first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track that even the slowest...
When he began the job nine years ago, Ziolkowski reckoned that he could finish it in 30 years. He has removed about 765,000 tons of rock and still has about 5,235,000 tons to go, is five years behind his 30-year schedule. A local supporter has told Ziolkowski that at the rate he is going he will finish at about the age of 117. "You're a good man," the friend said, "but not that good." Retorts Ziolkowski: "I came out here to carve a mountain, and I'm going to get it done...
...Jaguars were privately entered, but there was a big contingent of factory mechanics on hand to give expert aid and comfort to the cars. The experts had remarkably little work to do. Once they got the lead, the Jags held it to the finish. The Scottish stable (Ecurie Ecossaise) that won last year took first and second; one of last year's winning drivers, Ron Flockhart, was in the front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar...
...thirds of the three-mile I.R.A. regatta, Cornell's varsity crew had a hard time getting any real run on its boat. Then Stroke Phil Gravink pushed the beat to 32 and the Big Red shell began to skip across wind-chopped Lake Onondaga. Cornell crossed the finish line 12 lengths ahead of Penn. pulling away so fast that its third successive I.R.A. triumph looked deceptively easy...
Militarily, Barrera is hampered by too few men for too large an area. As a helicopter fruitlessly scanned the mist-shrouded mountains last week, Barrera was asked how long it might take to finish Castro. "Sooner or later," he answered wearily, "we will capture them...