Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return to the naked power politics of pre-war years defeats the purpose of the U.N. and suggests a headlong race for natural resources...
...natural that in the midst of calisthenics contortions on hard mats Ulen's aquatic stars fondly recall how enjoyable it is to swim a race. The psychological aim of the landlocked workouts is to make the prospect of racing 20 laps or so an attractive alternative. After more than a month in the boxing room, the boys are always straining at the starter's whistle...
...after his death, silent, shuffling throngs lined the sidewalks outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, walked in, passed slowly by his open, candle-flanked coffin. When the cathedral doors were finally closed at 11 o'clock at night, 45,000 people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...