Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to nurse its brakes. The race was only nine hours old, but already only an accident could lose for Fangio. His excitable pit crew managed to get one of his teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept rolling in fine style. When the fireworks were touched off at 10 p.m. to signal the end of the race, the exquisitely...
...Richards matched each other leap for leap in the pole vault, saw the bar push steadily past 15 ft. At 15 ft. 6 in., Richards sailed over easily. Gutowski felt himself brush the bar, watched it bounce off the standards and looked up from the sawdust pit to see it settle in place. Both failed at 15 ft. 9 in. For Richards the first-place tie was his eleventh consecutive Millrose victory...
...essence, tonight's game will pit three almost equally strong lines against two very good defenses. Bud Higgen bottom's recovery from a cracked ankle in time for the B.C. game has enabled Weiland to put him at center in the third line. Besides vastly improving this line, it also gives Weiland the opportunity of having a comparatively fresh forward wall on the ice at all times...
...glutear muscle ..." The producers may also have trouble with some of the animal actors (including an egg-laying rooster) called for in Joyce's script. Sample stage direction: The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to feel real regal at the annual Imperial Ball, sponsored for charity by Chrysler...
...local mink rancher, who had developed the once-promising heavyweight Rex Layne. Young Gene was the kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different kind of fighting in Korea, Gene...