Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that in a three-year cycle the moon would move ahead and then back of its previously calculated position by 440 ft. This minute exactness is important to scientific timekeepers, who sometimes use the moon as a standard clock. The calculations, in fact, corrected the moon clock by 0.2 sec. per year...
...nodes) that move through 360° about six times per century. The chief cause of this lunar shift is the pull of the sun's gravitation, but there are other influences too, and when all the known effects had been cranked into the equations, a discrepancy of 25 sec. of arc (.007°) per century still persisted...
...game for Pampa High's basketball squad, ran 50 yds. for the winning touchdown against archrival Amarillo High, and was practically a one-man track team-heaving the 12-lb. shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling the discus 192 ft. 3 in., running 100 yds. in 10.3 sec. More than 100 colleges made him offers, and the University of Southern California assigned Old Grads Long and Parry O'Brien to take the prize prospect in tow. They proudly showed him the library, the dormitories, all those long-legged girls. Pity. They should have spent more time showing...
...Deep. Back into the game for Boston rushed the Celtics' "sixth man," Forward John Havlicek, who trained for the unsung-hero role as Ohio State's No. 2 man behind three-time All-America Jerry Lucas. Havlicek scored 15 points, and the Celtics bounced back. With 5 sec. to go and Boston leading 110-107, Chamberlain leaped up and rammed the ball through the basket-all the way up to his elbow...
...they had the ball. All they had to do was freeze, and the game would be over. So the incredible happened. Trying to flip the ball in bounds, Russell gasped with horror as it clipped a support wire on the backboard and caromed off court. There were still 5 sec. left and the 76'ers had the ball again, under the Celtics' basket. Quickly, they called time out. Coach Dolph Schayes outlined his strategy: Guard Hal Greer was to pass deep to Forward Chet Walker, set up a long set shot; Chamberlain was to station himself under...