Word: patton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dash, Mel Patton once explained, is to "boom and float" - explode from the starting blocks, drive hard for 50 yds., then "settle down and go for the ride." Slender and wiry, the World's Fastest Human of the '40s rode to a 9.3-sec. 100 - a world record that stood unmolested for 13 years, until Villanova's Frank Budd clocked...
...officer little in the public eye while he was helping chart Allied strategy but later in full, controversial view when his wartime diaries became the basis for The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, in which he attacked virtually every top American (Ike: "no real commander"; Patton: "A character") and grandly regarded himself as the real architect of victory; of a heart attack; in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...
...commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn foals, and the Russians are sure to rustle them unless General Patton rapidly develops some horse sense...
Farmers Union President James Patton, wearing a black eye patch as a result of a cancer operation, introduced "the great Secretary of Agriculture...
Then, on succeeding days on varying holes, it was goodbye Mr. Beman, goodbye Mr. Ward, goodbye Mr. Chapman (and, along the way, goodbye Master Gerringer), all beaten by smooth-swinging youngsters who were in turn beaten by better ones. By the fifth round, only Mr. Patton was among the eight quarter-finalists. The others were all 25 or under, and the fact that Patton had come that far suddenly seemed a marvel of geriatrics. Billy Joe even made it through to the semifinals...