Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...Humphrey's Minnesota, led by Governor Orville Freeman, swept across the border to campaign for their man. The two candidates themselves kept up a grueling, sun-up-to-midnight schedule, attracted increasing swarms of voters wherever they went. This week, as the campaign rocketed toward the April 5 finish line, the fighting was getting rough...
...operatic history to commit suicide was an opulently constructed New Jersey girl named Gussie Seit. That was seven years ago, at the Chicago Lyric Opera, after terrible-tempered Tenor David Poleri, appearing as Don José, stalked off the stage in the final act snarling at the conductor, "Finish it yourself." Gussie finished it herself by singing Don José's part as well as her own. At the moment of truth, when Don José was to have stabbed her, she stuck her thumb in her chest and dropped on the stage...
...Stanford University to smash the official world record of Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien (63 ft. 2 in.), and the pending mark of the University of Southern California's Dallas Long (63 ft. 7 in.). On the record, it looked as if U.S. shotputters might finish one-two-three at the Olympics this August in Rome...
...person of his principal character, an old physician (played by Viktor Sjöstrom) who has lived the life of the mind but personifies the death of the heart, Bergman (as he has described it) weighs his whole life and finds it wanting in love. But at the finish, the old scientist returns to the bosom of his family and there finds the love and meaning he had lost...