Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have always longed for rifles that can be fitted out to serve efficiently as magazine-fed light machine guns or heavy-volume belt-fed machine guns, the Defense Department is testing two such weapons systems under battlefield conditions, and trained marines make the transformations in less than 1 min. while wearing clumsy Alaskan mittens...
...repertory ranged from far-in to farthest out. In a 50-min. work aptly titled Aeon, a blinding flash of magnesium flares stirred Cunningham's ten-member troupe into an otherworldly, slow-motion ballet. In the orchestra pit, Conductor Cage slowly raised and lowered his arms like a railroad signal, while his two-man orchestra conjured a percussive nightmare with such ear-splitting accents as a nail file rasped across a metal music stand. When the sound system shorted and buzzed harshly for several minutes, the audience accepted it as part of the show...
...system to issue commands, has now dispensed with it because everyone has hand signals down pat). Cox makes the boat point higher and foot faster than any of her four rivals. In ten legs of windward work in the present series, she has gained a brisk total of 15 min. 24 sec. over her opponents; in 13 legs of off-the-wind sailing, her total gain has been 8 min. 59 sec., not quite so good but impressive enough...
...gambling and comes home, with a pretty wife jouncing on the back of his Harley-Davidson, to boss his father's logging operation in Oregon. He had been a phenomenal high school athlete, strong enough to hold a double-bitted ax at arm's length for 8 min. 36 sec.; at 36 he is still able to bare-knuckle the swagger out of the biggest lumberjack in the Northwest...
...meter mark, with 1,200 meters to go, the Philadelphians drew even with Harvard, edged ahead-and never looked back. Eight tulip-shaped oars swinging as one, they took the stroke up to 40 at the end, swept to a one-length victory in 6 min. 1.3 sec.-fastest time of the entire Olympic trials...