Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thawed Curl. Despite Hoffa's studied forgetfulness and witnesses' fright, the committee added some gamy paragraphs to the malodorous Hoffa record.* According to committee documents and testimony...
...record to which Michigan's union-backed Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara seemed oblivious this week when he declared in a TV interview that if the Teamsters "really want" Hoffa, "I'll go along with that, because they're all my constituents...
...decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this will prove a false departure, with the Africans refusing to go, depends partly on how eloquent De Gaulle proves in person on a tour of West Africa in the next fortnight. France's colonial record, splotchy elsewhere, is quite good in West Africa. And the French have shown themselves surprisingly adaptable to Africa's growing demands...
...hill called Cumorah, situated near Palmyra, N.Y. (22 miles southeast of Rochester), is a holy place to the 1,500,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three nights last week, the faithful and the curious gathered there in record numbers-some 135,000 in all-for the 17th Hill Cumorah Pageant, which depicts in dramatic terms the legendary origins of the Mormon faith...
...clanged for the final lap, Elliott went into high gear. His muscular legs churning, he left the field behind with an astounding 55.5-sec. final quarter. As 20,000 fans shrieked approval, Elliott finished 12 yds. in front in an unbelievable 3:54.5, far under the 3:58 listed record of Australia's John Landy. Lincoln was second in 3:55.9, Delany third in 3:57.5, Halberg fourth in the same time. Even Thomas, finishing fifth, had a clocking of 3:58.6. Never before had five runners broken four minutes in the same race. Even rivals were awed...