Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hitters built up a two-run lead in the second inning but blew a chance to bust the game open in the top of the eighth, when they amassed four hits and two walks with only one runner crossing the plate...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
...carry U.S. airmen into combat in Korea; for Viet Nam he has produced the F-4 Phantom, the hottest fighter yet flown in combat by any air force in the world. By his dedication to technical precision, he has turned his company into a sudden and surprising front runner in one of the most complex and competitive of modern industries. Yet, as its chairman and chief executive, he remains a shy and paradoxical figure, leary of publicity even as he competes for profits. Half introvert and half visionary, McDonnell sometimes seems a crusty, single-minded engineer who exists only...
...Schoor was runner-up at 114.5, after losing to the eventual champ in the first round...
Last year's winner in the sabre and runner-up in the foil, Leverett's Russell, who fenced with a pair of ripped pants, passed up the foil this year to concentrate on the less disciplined sabre and epee events. He had some close calls last night, edging Munch and Winthrop's Phil Chase by identical 5-4 scores...