Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile, Benjamin had the aid of a new opponent--half-miler Art Cahn, running his first race at the mile distance. Cahn stayed with Benjamin through a 61.0 quarter and a 2:06 880, and he even passed his teammate momentarily midway in the third lap. But Benjamin pulled away, practically sprinting the entire last lap, and finished 75 yards in front...
Yale coach Bob Giegengack was trying a daring gamble in the mile, sending his ace Ed Slowik, an 880 man, who had never before run the distance in competition, against the varsity's Dyke Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald. Benjamin led almost from the start, until in the final lap, when Eli Jim Wade passed Benjamin, only to be caught again 150 yards from the tape by both Benjamin and Fitzgerald. It semed as if the Yale gamble had failed, when Slowik came from no-where in the stretch to win by two yards in the meet record time...
Dyke Benjamin won two exciting battles with Cornell distance runners to lead the Crimson's romp. In the mile, Arnold Cummins of Cornell passed Benjamin with a lap to go, and for a moment it seemed he might outrun the Crimson ace. But Benjamin countered with a devastating kick and beat Cummins to the tape by five yards...
...Japanese who resented the festive occasion. As the bridal entourage rolled down one of Tokyo's main streets, a 19-year-old boy threw a stone at the couple. When he missed, he tried to climb inside the carriage. As Michiko took refuge across Akihito's lap, two liveried footmen shoved the youth aside; half a dozen policemen knocked him to the ground and then led him away. He proved to be one Kensetsu Nakayama, a former gas-station attendant who had failed to pass two university entrance examinations. "I only wanted Akihito to get out and talk...
...James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to get up early and go to work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures...