Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allows a rifleman to pack ten times as much ammo as his World War II or Korean War predecessors. Even on automatic, the M-16 delivers deadly accuracy over the ranges (50 ft. or less) at which most Vietnamese fire fights take place. While the M-14 delivers relatively slow-moving bullets that drill cleanly through the body, the M-16 shoots a high-velocity slug that can pulverize enemy flesh on contact...
...helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow its growth...
...month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record set by Bob Hayes in 1963. Two weeks later in Modesto, Calif., he was again a little slow getting out of the blocks, but tied the world mark of 10 sec. for 100 meters. No official bothered to clock Jim for the first 100 yds. of that race, but two coaches with stop watches did. One caught him 8.9 sec., the other in 9 sec. flat...
...three years later, Wright calls Hines "the best sprinter I've ever coached." Jim himself thinks he can break four world records (100 yds., 100 meters, 220 yds. and 200 meters) this summer. He showed why last week when, on a slow track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, he beat San Jose State's Tommie Smith, the 220-yd. world recordholder (at 20 sec. flat) by three yards...
...Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second it looked like it might be the Derby all over again. But he tired and his stride shortened, while Damascus, without the whip through the last half furlong, kept drawing away. The slow-motion TV camera caught his almost effortless stride at the end, and it looked as if the Belmont's additional 5/16 of a mile could have been his for the asking...