Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts picked the Chicago Bears to finish no better than second in the National Football League's Western Conference. Everybody conceded them a hard-nosed defense-but offense makes pro football champions these days. The Bears just laughed. Their ferocious defense held opponents to an average ten points in 14 games, clawed the champion Green Bay Packers so mercilessly that the Packers scored one touchdown, one field goal in two tries. Bored sportswriters still called the Bears "the faceless wonders." Yet old George Halas' team won eleven games, tied two and lost only...
...rain-soaked track at the Orange Bowl track meet. A 10-m.p.h. wind made it all unofficial, but Hayes also splashed through the 220 in 20.1 sec.-just .1 sec. off Dave Sime's world mark-even though he slowed down to avoid crashing into spectators at the finish line...
...years. However, it's impossible to predict how the team will fare against the Lions and the Red. The Crimson will need good shooting and, more important, good ball handling to win both games. But if they do, Harvard's basketball team will be headed for its first finish in the upper half of the Ivy League since...
...Burton, who had no home to go to, were still there. Richard the Lionhearted, taking regular Harry Truman constitutionals, paced briskly along with members of the press in tow, covering the 1,200-meter distance from his villa to his favorite bar without even getting winded. Assuming a quick finish to the Fisher business, when would he become the fifth Mr. Taylor? "Probably about January 20." Why wait? "There will be a few days' delay arranging the wedding, and also for the sake of decorum-what little decorum is left...
...years -a big fat double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...