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Word: sonnichsen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted 40 valuable minutes of swimming time searching for her pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover in 13 hr. 53 min. More than two hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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