Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gradually, Henk's solitary practice began to take effect. By last February, at the age of 19, Henk had become good enough to finish tenth in the 500-meter sprint at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. The taste of success made him train all the harder. With his own special diet (no onions or fats), he built himself into a wiry 150 lbs. He often got a free hour from his job as an auto mechanic to do some road work, but he needed to practice on ice. Last year Henk took his fiancee and headed...
...behind with three laps still to go. Suddenly the years of conditioning paid off. Zooming into the turns like a sprinter, Henk picked up a second on the next to last lap, shaved off another 1.3 sec. on the final lap. With one final burst, he shot across the finish line 17.7 sec. behind Kosichkin's time to become Holland's first world champion in skating since 1905. All Holland prepared to celebrate the victory of Henk van der Grift and his silver skates...
...want blood!" Angry knots of students rose to hurl wads of toilet paper at the enemy bench. Down on the court, fired-up Indiana was playing its best game of the year. But Ohio State stonily kept its poise, sank three foul shots in the last minute to finish off its tormentors, 73-69. Five nights later, playing back home in friendly Columbus, Ohio State easily defeated Wisconsin...
...majestic finish, Igor played first violin, David second, in the D Minor Concerto for Two Violins, and the contrasts suddenly seemed to disappear. At one point it seemed to listeners that the elder Oistrakh had the more penetrating, his son the more silvery, tone; but when the same passage recurred in the concerto, the two violinists seemed to have swapped tone colors and styles. Said the Daily Telegraph's David Cooper: "The two play not simply as one mind, but as one instrument." The Oistrakhs agreed. Said Igor: "We don't know or feel differences or similarities that...
...must have been a rough day for Slater, who was a member of the 1956 British Olympic team and is the Canadian national champion in the 440. Saturday, though, Slater couldn't even win in his specialty, as sophomore George Mulligan nosed him out at the finish with a time of 4:44.0--good, but still a far cry from Yale...