Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture that father had just taken. After countless experiments over the next four years, Land devised the procedure that captured an image on special paper pressed against film and developing solution, which simultaneously produced a negative and positive print. The film and paper could be separated after 60 sec. to reveal the picture. During the 1950s and 1960s, the wizard of light turned out a steady stream of new cameras, faster developing films and color films. During its go-go Wall Street era, Polaroid became the epitome of a glamour stock. A $1,000 investment in the company...
...East Germany's four-man bobsled team rattling down the refrigerated run on Mount Van Hoevenberg in 59.86 sec., breaking the one-minute barrier for the first time ever, then breaking it again the next day, in 59.73 sec...
...last four 400-meter laps, Heiden was magnificent. Despite the growing pain, he skated each lap in exactly 35.2 sec. Finishing in 14:28.13, he was so tired that he could not even lift his head on his victory lap, let alone acknowledge the cheers...
...days later, Moser-Pröll took a spill on the steep upper portion of the shorter women's slalom in the first run and was eliminated. Hanni stayed upright and swept to her second gold by a commanding margin of nearly 1.5 sec. With two golds and a silver in the three alpine events, she matched the smashing performance of West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier in the 1976 Winter Games at Innsbruck...
...penalty for high-sticking gave the U.S. a man advantage and Johnson rammed in his second goal, with an assist from Boston University's Dave Silk, to tie the game. Just 81 sec. later, Mike Eruzione, the team captain, drove home a rebound for what proved to be the winning goal. Across the American night, millions of living rooms and bars reverberated with a noise of deep satisfaction, and President Carter invited the whole team to the White House, along with the rest of the U.S. Olympians, for lunch...