Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
Marshall pulled hardest, led Furuhashi at the 100-meter mark. At 200 meters Marshall's graceful, reaching strokes still held the margin; whirlpooling into the 250-meter turn he looked like a winner...
...crowd was on its feet, screaming "Furuhashi, gambarel [Furuhashi, fight hard]!" The home-town boy chop-chopped to a furious pitch, splashed past Marshall at the 350-meter mark. McLane and Konno pulled ahead of him too, finished second and third...
Thirring does not mention the difficulties of manufacturing and spreading the poison. He only suggests that it be mixed with powdered sand. This "death sand" (containing .05% of radioactive material) would be applied at a rate of 12 milligrams (1/2500 oz.) per square meter and would be entirely invisible. Less than a ton of death sand, evenly distributed, would make Manhattan a deathtrap...
Samaritan. In Evanston, ILL, Jay Sandercock put a penny in an expired parking meter to save a stranger from a ticket, was arrested for tampering with the meter, learned that the car had already been ticketed...