Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along the ground. He followed the wire, detouring a guard tower, followed a set of footprints into the wire, found a pair of wire-snippers dropped by a guard. Mieczyslaw cut the wire and tiptoed across a ten-meter band of smooth sand toward the next barrier, a low stake fence draped with barbed wire. He snipped his way through that, hurried across another stretch of smooth sand toward the third barrier, a higher fence. Suddenly he stopped. He had stepped on a wire concealed in the sand. Somewhere...
...Danville, Va. cops gave visiting motorists the benefit of a unique form of hospitality: instead of writing traffic tickets for overtime parking, the bluecoats simply dropped a nickel (from a fund supplied by the chamber of commerce) into the nearest parking meter, and passed...
Object Lesson. In Omaha, after Harry Marble parked his car in a properly metered place behind the post office, police removed the meter, installed a "Bus Zone -No Parking" sign, ticketed Marble...
...France's Jean Boiteux, who beat out Ford Konno in the 400-meter free-style swimming final, setting an Olympic record of 4 min. 30.7 sec. and inspiring his excited father to plunge for joy, beret and all, into the pool...
...Faster, Higher, Stronger." Beyond question, the Olympics' top hero was its only triple winner, Emil Zatopek, the brilliant, eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled...