Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maureen was fantastic," said coach Johnson. "We had to put her in shorter races but she still had her best times in everything she ran. Next to Laurie, she had the best split time," she added...
Wood is not relaxing, however. His life seems fragile. As a teenager, he spent 15 months in hospital after a car crash that left him with one leg shorter than the other; drafted into the army, he was accidentally shot in the back. In 1969 he had a major cancer operation. "I have apprehended death. It releases vitality." Now he is pacing himself like a champion aiming for a final thrust at supremacy. "I hate being called 'in fashion.' I've earned my success," he says. 'I've been 22 years in this business...
...manlike jawbone that seems to be well over 3 million years old (TIME, Dec. 2, 1974). If all these creatures are in fact close kin, they would, in Mary Leakey's words, be people "not unlike ourselves," though not much more than 5 ft. tall and with much shorter life spans and somewhat smaller brains...
There was a cardinal rule to successful "popcorneering"--sell only on the visitors' side of the stadium. One can sell just as much, the walk back to Carey Cage is shorter, but foremost you didn't have to put up with those "funny" wiseass Harvard guys...
...Senator Edward Kennedy, who agrees with the organization's criticism of American medicine and its announced intention of improving patient care. It is not expected to draw active opposition from the American Med ical Association, which disapproves of unionization but approved the New York strikers' demand for shorter shifts to improve patient care. The A.M.A., says a spokesman, "believes that physicians are better represented by a professional association with broad purposes than by a union with a frequent focus on narrow, economic objectives...