Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Beckford prefers shorter distances such as the 1500 and 800 meter events--in which she ranks among the best in the world--she has the talent to become an excellent harrier...
...sleek 12-meter yachts-named for a design formula, not their average length of more than 60 feet -are high-strung thoroughbreds that respond to the smallest calibration of sail cut, hull design or crew performance. Conner's backers raised upwards of $2.5 million, more than double the budgets of the other Cup contenders, enabling him to test both the brand-new Freedom and Enterprise (built in 1976) before settling on his final hull. Racing the two against each other, he logged more than 1,200 practice hours and tried out more than 100 crewmen. He was especially meticulous...
...king die after one scene. Philip Casnoff makes a properly youthful Clarence, through there is more poetry in his long Dream than he has yet discovered. In the play's second-largest part, the Duke of Buckingham, David Huffman speaks admirably, with only an occasional violation of the meter; he is especially good in the scene with Richard as Mock-Monk. Tyrrel is not a large role, but Richard Seer brings sly subtlety to his inflections, looks and gait, and comes up with a real gem of a performance...
Frequently they did. Moscow marks were bettered in eight of the first 17 Olympic-distance events. Mary T. Meagher, 15, of Louisville, and Craig Beardsley, 19, of Harrington Park, N.J., set world records in the women's and men's 200-meter butterfly. In the men's 200 butterfly, the three top finishers all came in faster than Soviet Sergei Fesenko did in winning the gold medal. In both the 200 backstroke and 100 breaststroke, two Americans finished under the Moscow times. The performances were remark able considering that many of the swimmers eased up on their...
...Solzhenitsyn!' I have read 16 pages of One Day in the Life of what's his name. It was boring, boring. But how many pages have you read?" The girl began laughing. Her voice was still hoarse from cheering on Britain's Allan Wells, the 100-meter champion, the day before. "We had such a goings-on in that bus that the driver got lost...