Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Cerutty's floating pronouns, everyone within earshot understood. He was talking about Villanova's Ron Delany, the frail, pale Irishman who, never running faster than he has to, has been almost unbeatable ever since he won the 1,500 meters in record time at the 1956 Olympics. Aussie Elliott was casually planning to race him right off the track. Neither Herb nor his coach showed any concern about the presence of Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori...
...Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League and, under the quixotic leadership of pious, philosophic U Nu, has been just barely effective in holding off a long succession of revolts by two varieties of Communists, and such racial minorities as the Karens and the Shans. Last week this one frail, unifying force split asunder...
...Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon had its usual motley of cigar-smoking clowns, bicycle riders and beer-drinking college boys who dropped out of the race when they got to Wellesley. But after the show-offs were gone, pale, frail Franjo Mihalic, 36, a Yugoslav printer, outlegged all the other hoofers to win the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind in 2:25:54. Second: Boston's defending champion, John J. Kelley...
...Revolutionary Prestes, black-eyed, bony and frail at 60, working in the open will be a novelty. More than 30 years ago, as a young army officer, he led a column of 1,500 fanatic men who staged a legendary 16,000-mile retreat through Brazil's jungled backlands after an attempted revolution by army left-wingers had flopped. He then fled to Russia, worked as a hydroelectric engineer, became a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats...
...racing against Rozsy worried Ron, the pale, frail-looking Irishman in Villanova's colors gave no sign last week when he glided easily into the early laps of the National Amateur Athletic Union mile. He picked a place in the clear, just off the pace, and let Chicago's Phil Coleman tow the field along. His slow (2:05.2) half bothered him not a bit. Farther back, Rozsy began to show concern. He wasted energy jockeying for the lead...