Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Survive. The race turned out to be one of the safest in history, with no fatalities. But cars died like flies. Moss got his Aston out front in the early going, but dropped out with engine trouble at the five-hour mark. Before the race was half over, all the Jaguars were out. Two factory Ferraris were knocked out by mechanical trouble, but the third, piloted alternately by Defending Champions Phil Hill of Santa Monica, Calif, and Belgium's Olivier Gendebien, roared on through the night, built a three-lap lead over two pursuing Astons...
...display an unrivaled roster of world champions, and each of them came through without serious challenge. Harold Connolly easily won his specialty, the hammer. Marine Lieut. Al Cantello (TIME, June 15) won the javelin, even though his winning toss was some 35 ft. shy of his pending world mark. Parry O'Brien, 28, rippling his muscles amid assorted grunts, snorts and grimaces, heaved the shot 62 ft. 2 in. for his seventh A.A.U. title in eight years, took dead aim on an Olympic gold medal...
...first mile of the three-mile grind, Syracuse held the lead, but at the halfway mark, running a stroke under Syracuse, Coach Norm Sonju's Wisconsin eight forged in front. At two miles, Syracuse edged closer. But with a half mile to go, Wisconsin mounted a killing sprint at 39 strokes per minute, coasted home to win by two lengths for its first I.R.A. victory since 1951, when the regatta was held at Marietta, Ohio...
Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...
...fashioned an independent career for himself as an economist, but in the '20s, his personal position was that of a man caught between two worlds. He had turned his back on the world of money, but had just enough left to be treated as an easy mark by many writers and artists. As a writer he had just enough talent to wonder if he had enough...