Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Alarmed by widespread and often unverified acceptance of the idea, the A.M.A. and the National Research Council last week took a joint potshot at the drug in what the A.M.A. called a "major position paper" (translation: a report that falls just short of being official A.M.A. policy...
...experiment suggests that extra inches are available to anyone who achieves increasing degrees of success, on campus or off. But apparently the success must be of considerable dimension. For even when he was Professor England, the visitor's estimated height still fell more than half an inch short of his actual height...
...their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been here. This is trial-and-tribulation music...
Trevino the man hardly needs Trevino the myth. Ebullient and extroverted, a wisecracking four-letter man who worries only about his weight ("Five foot seven-and-a-half is a little short for 180 Ibs."), Lee is one of the most colorful champions golf has produced. "The only time I stop yakking," he says, "is when Im asleep. I even had to quit smoking on the golf course because I nearly choked to death while I was talking." After he won last week's Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., with a 275 that tied Jack...
...first, officials feared that the concrete-hard clay track was short, but a careful survey showed that it actually measured 100 meters and 4 in. Then the timers came under attack: "I was watching their hands," insisted one onlooker, "and I saw some of the fastest fingers in the West." Maybe. But in the cases of Greene, Hines and Smith, an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken Mary's mark. Their times were therefore submitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation for official recognition...