Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While lawyers tangled in a marathon argument over his amateur status. Marine Miler Wes Santee ran another of his special races against token competition in the Cleveland K. of C. games. For a change, the fast-talking Kansan turned in a fast time on the track: 4:06.9, his best performance of the winter indoor season...
...After a survey of half the school population in the state, the Kansas state board of health told just how perilous life among the school-aged can be: "On the average, one school-age Kansan was killed every 2¼ days of the year." Chances were 4 to 1 that the victim was a boy. Main causes of death: traffic accidents (60%), drowning (8%), firearms...
...idle and somewhat sportive mood," the Des Moines Register's Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation "to get the lowdown" on Iowa's prime products, corn and hogs. Moscow jumped at the offer, and Kansan Dwight Eisenhower soon endorsed the idea of exchanging farm visits...
...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...
...National A.A.U. championships, Kansan Wes Santee finally hit on the right tactics, held himself off the pace for the first three-quarters of the mile run, then burned up the boards of the Madison Square Garden track in a last-quarter dash that brought him home in a meet-record 4:07.9, three yards ahead of his persistent rivals, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen and Private Fred Dwyer. Earlier, on the Garden's crowded infield, Lieut. Parry O'Brien put the 16-lb. shot to a new world indoor record...