Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allies. Korea: the original 150,000-man South Korean force grew to 460,000; also participating were 40,000 troops from 15 other nations fighting under the flag of the United Nations. Viet Nam: presently engaged are 550,000 South Vietnamese government troops, composed of military regulars and regional and village self-defense forces. Other allies involved are 900 Australians and 150 New Zealanders who take part in combat, along with assorted instructors and technicians, including 200 other Australians and 32 New Zealanders, twelve British, 68 Filipinos, 80 Japanese, 2,100 South Koreans, 124 Nationalist Chinese, 23 West Germans...
...that more than 50% of their voting-age Negroes were registered. Another would have permitted some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York to vote, even though they did not know English, by showing proof of a sixth-grade education in a school operated under the U.S. flag...
...With one lap to go, the crowd was on its feet as the public address announcer ticked off Clark's dwindling lead. Seven seconds, six, five, four, three-and at that instant, right thumb raised high in the classic gesture of victory, Jimmy Clark swept under the checkered flag. By the barest of margins, a scant 100 yds., he had won his fourth straight Grand Prix race of the season...
...klaxons of hell seemed concentrated at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Mountains of France. Electric starters whined. Engines coughed, belched smoke, bellowed and shrieked defiance at the wind. Yelling officials rushed wildly about, collaring reluctant mechanics and dragging them to the safety of the pits. The Tricolor flag fell. Gears crashed, tires squealed, and to a roar from 50,000 spectators, 17 Formula 1 racing cars hurtled off the starting grid for lap 1 of the French Grand Prix-oldest auto race in the world...
...average of one gear change every 2 sec. And he did it in a four-year-old "training car" instead of the new, 32-valve model he wrecked in practice when the suspension snapped at 80 m.p.h. ("a bit breathtaking, that"). When he finally coasted under the checkered flag, he was far enough ahead (26 sec.) that the only thing he could see in his rearview mirror was his own face...