Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Patton got on the blocks for the 100-yard final, athletes from 75 colleges paused to watch the great sprinter run his last hundred for the University of Southern California. At the gun, Patton uncoiled like a spring, his long, slender legs pumping, with Stanfield right beside him in an adjoining lane. In the last 20 yards, Patton pulled away enough to win by a yard in 9.7 (slow time compared to the world record 9.3 he hung up last year at Fresno, Calif...
...Patton and Stanfield again ran like a team to the halfway mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern...
...Gilcrease speaks with the doeskin softness of the Creek Nation, and only after ponderous buffalo-like reflection. He has no tomahawk to grind. Gilcrease says: "I just want to present the facts about the conquest of the West and the way the Indian was treated-just present it and then set people thinking about...
...oratorical proceedings in the House Ways & Means Committee Room in the New House Office Building sounded something like a high-school commencement. In itself, that was by no means unusual, but this time there really was a high-school commencement going on inside. One night last week the senior class (13 boys) of the Capitol Page School, one of the most uncommon academies in existence, got its diplomas almost like any other senior class, with the playing of Pomp and Circumstance, a welcome by Principal Orson W. Trueworthy, an address by John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury...
...Wartime Method. Dr. Rhoads's jobs as head of Memorial and of Sloan-Kettering allow him little time for his favorite recreation-sailing. Like most men named Rhoads, he is called "Dusty" by his friends. Born in Springfield. Mass. 51 years ago, he graduated from-Harvard Medical School in 1924. He has long been a successful medical scientist, and today he could be mistaken for the go-getting president of a big university...