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Word: meters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain the strongest body. Kurt Bendlin, West Germany's world record holder, arrived in Mexico City complaining of two sore knees and tendonitis in one elbow. Toomey had a pulled hip muscle for which he was being treated with cortisone. Even so, in the first test, the 100-meter dash, Toomey hit the tape in 10.4 sec., best time of the day and good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring system.* Then, a soaring 25-ft. 9¾-in. long jump, best of Toomey's career, gave him another 994 points and kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: The Original Ideal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...area, which is entered from Bennett St, "should be available very soon"-- perhaps within a week--for parking use, Sullivan said. The poles of the parking meters once used there are still in place; only the meter heads need to be installed, he said...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge Autos Get Place to Park | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

...wasn't going to run until John Carlos told me I had to," said Evans. But he was clearly not taking too many orders. All three 400-meter runners wore black berets to the awards ceremony, and all three stood bareheaded at attention for their national anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: Black Complaint | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Swimming and diving were also dominated by the U.S. By week's end, three events had been held, and Americans had won all three-two of them, the men's 400-meter freestyle relay and the women's 400-meter medley relay, in world-record times. The U.S. basketball team was still unbeaten, heading for a showdown with the Soviet Union. But there are 19 sports in the 1968 Olympics-more than enough to give athletes from the rest of the world an opportunity to make their marks. And they did. Four of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records All Around | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...France's Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records All Around | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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