Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime private secretary, now an Anglican). These ex-priests never get permission for a civil ceremony, but Protestant pastors have worked out a stopgap solution: a private Protestant ceremony performed before a notary public. This has no legal validity whatever, only serves to put the ceremony on record...
...could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named Jim-no kin to Matt -Dillon: draw and shoot in twelve-hundredths of a second.) Most of them, besides, carried a "stingy gun" and were masters of the border shift and the road agent's spin...
...food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge until the Nazis found them - only nine months before the liberation of Holland. Of the eight, only Anne's father, Otto Frank, escaped death in concentration camps, and it was he who released Anne's meticulous diary record of their two desperate years...
...high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees in the 1953 series; of cerebral meningitis; in Philadelphia...
...much of the auto industry overtime pay was the rule. Ford's Ford Division was operating six days at five assembly plants. So was the Lincoln-Thunderbird unit, along with Studebaker-Packard and American Motors. George Romney's Ramblers set another production record: 8,550 cars turned out on the way up to a programed rate of 8,850. Still catching up from the effects of a strike-caused glass shortage, Plymouth was on a six-day week at the Detroit, Newark, Del. and Los Angeles assembly plants...