Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed. In the other nine events (100 meters, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, javelin, 1,500 meters), he picked up 7,606 more points. His total of 9,121 smashed Rafer Johnson's three-year-old world decathlon record by 438 points. Groused Yang: "I should have done better...
...know we're a strong crew and that we row well, but there's a question mark about just how fast we are." Parker said. The Crimson will have a chance a find out Saturday in the short 2000 meter race which is more a test of speed than of endurance...
...take place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after two years--it seems longer to the reader--they are all whisked off to Australia, where a brave new world is forming, free from evils...
Nobody in America survives, with the exception of 14 people in millionaire Vance Farr's plush fallout shelter. They form a fascinating group. With Farr himself, there is his alcoholic wife; a Jewish physicist; Farr's lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs...
...illusions. One chamber is arranged as a hall of justice: in it an office worker, satanic in black robes, buys the illusion that he is a judge and cruelly extracts a confession of a prostitute (Ruby Dee). A second chamber is arranged as a chapel: in it a gas-meter reader, in miter and chasuble, buys the illusion that he is a bishop and lovingly receives a confession of a prostitute. A third chamber is arranged as a stable: in it a milkman, bristling with chest lettuce, buys the illusion that he is a cavalry general and prepares to mount...