Word: outran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a tremendous effort by Jed Fitzgerald, the Yardling track team lost to Yale, 80 to 60 Saturday. Fitzgerald outran Eli Bill Bachrach to win the mile in 4:23.8, only .3 seconds off Ed Martin's year-old meet record. An hour later, he outran the same opponent to win the two-mile in 9:35.8, and break the meet record by nine seconds...
Captain Reider, appearing in his last Yale meet, was the unbeatable Reider of old as he won both the mile and the two-mile events. In the former, he outran Eli Jim Wade and romped to an easy win in 4:20.1. In the two-mile, it was Eli John Morrison who shadowed Reider for most of the race only to fall to Reider's finishing kick, which thrilled the large partisan crowd. Morrison was operating under an unusual handicap, however: he had to run the last mile and a quarter minus one shoe...
...men?its scientists and its technicians?and Khrushchev must allow them to think. They demand respect. They can do without Khrushchev, but Khrushchev cannot do without them. Within the party there may be younger men who will overtake him when he slows or stumbles. But in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev outran, outfoxed, outbragged, outworked and out-drank them...
...nations of the world, to live the full, good life. The specific objectives varied by nations-large public works, social welfare schemes, high wages, more leisure for workers, local rather than foreign development of national resources -all adding up to what economists call "the revolution of expectations." But expectations outran means; relatively backward economies could not supply the standards of fully developed states. Strained for the means, nations turned to their central banks, forced them into credit expansion by printing money...
Failing Magic. The heart of the difficulty was that independence had unleashed popular desires that outran the nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...