Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S...
Tense and terribly serious, the tall, tanned young (17) swimmer on the starting block took a couple of deep breaths, shook her head and shoulders with a nervous shrug and coiled into her starting crouch. At the gun, Shelley Mann, an Arlington, Va. schoolgirl, lit out in an angry, ungraceful...
Since then the girls have worked as hard as ever. Gut-wrenching wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow...
Sunday night at 10:00 o'clock, when the checkered flag drops, the car that has covered the most laps will take the grand prize. Each class will have its own winners, and there will be a performance award for which each car will get a handicap based on...
No Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward...