Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acclaimed him as the out standing swimmer of the first half-century, and rightly so. When he retired in 1929, Weissmuller held every freestyle record from 100 yds. to the half mile. And who could forget his showing in the 1928 Olympics, when he devastated his own Olympic 100-meter mark in the breathtaking time...
...U.S.C.'s Earl McCullouch, who gave up a chance at an Olympic gold medal (he is the world co-recordholder in the 110-meter high hurdles) to play pro football, the game was especially rewarding. McCullouch caught two TD passes. For Larry Csonka, Syracuse's 236-lb. fullback, playing against the Packers was "like being in a dream." To Green Bay he was strictly a nightmare. Trampling out 95 yds. on 18 carries, Csonka was the key man in an astonishingly successful All-Star ground attack that gained a total of 206 yds. against the toughest defensive line...
...family firm, but quietly dropped out. Du Pont likes politics and yachts. He was elected state senator in 1958. In both 1964 and 1966, he managed syndicates of similarly bankrolled yachtsmen who tried unsuccessfully to win the right to defend the America's Cup with the twelve-meter American Eagle. This summer, though he is leader of the Republican-controlled state senate and also chairman of the Republican state finance committee, Du Pont missed both Rockefeller and Reagan when they came to Delaware a-woo-ing delegates, because on both those weekends he happened...
...whether specific references could be analysed to provide a time and place of contact. There would have to be some way to positively identify the contact; and some sort of password system, so the contact would know that we were worthy of further information. By reducing the phrase "Meter Maid" to "Meet a maid" the Bryn Mawr girls had provided a profound insight. Given that you could get to the right place at the right time, the contact could be identified as a "maid," that is, a girl. There are two ways to make a maid-girl distinctive: She could...
Most noticeable (and most refreshing) is the refusal of Mayer and his cast to take the dialogue at face value: actors create their own speech rhythms, throw away phrases with alarming frequency, emphasize unexpected words to hilarious effect and happily screw around with the sacred meter of the verse...