Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only other woman who weathered the 60-mile-per-hour winds and temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero to reach the South Pole was also in Murden's party...
...couple set up house in the Togu Gosho, the Crown Prince's unpretentious residence half a mile from the Imperial Palace. But reports soon filtered out that Empress Nagako resented the intrusion of a commoner into the family. The situation was exacerbated when, in another break with tradition, Akihito and Michiko chose to raise their children -- Prince Hiro, now 28, Prince Aya, 23, and Princess Nori, 19 -- at home. In 1986 they stepped further into workaday modernity when they took their first subway ride...
Until recently, it was widely believed that older drivers were the safest because they are involved in the fewest accidents overall of any age group. But those statistics do not weigh the fact that senior citizens tend to drive fewer miles than their younger counterparts. A 1988 study by the Transportation Research Board and the National Research Council discovered that elderly drivers rank second only to 16-to-24-year-olds in the number of accidents per mile driven. Similarly, the Insurance Information Institute reports that drivers 75 and over are more accident-prone than all but those under...
After an exciting mile-relay victory, run in 3:20.64 by Horner, John Rowe, Gino Patrizio, and John Mee, Harvard led 70.5 to 69.5, and the meet came down to the final race, the men's two-mile relay...
...figured we'd have to win both relays [the one-mile and the two-mile] to win the meet. I almost exactly predicted the score," Haggerty said. "I'm pleased with the effort. I didn't want people to worry about times and distances, I just wanted them to be competitive. Losing like that sometimes clouds the fact that they did well...