Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation had the manpower, the resources, the skills. The main question that seemed to worry Washington most was whether the country had the wind; it was no time to start coasting. Warned Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman: "This is not a sprint. It's a four-mile race...
...observers of the semi-annual five-o'clock sprint can testify, today is the last day to hand in a study card free. Tomorrow it costs. Today's deadline marks the end of the shortest period of course-shopping ever, for gone is the petition (free) to add or drop courses for a week after study cards...
...Roger Le Morvan, 26-year-old Parisian electrician, who had had former Record Holder Georges Michel as his trainer, had refreshed himself en route with glucose and champagne. Tiring in the last minutes, he could not match Abd el Rahim's sprint, climbed onto the beach just ten minutes after the Egyptian...
...Gamma radiation travels with the speed of light and is gone instantly. Heat radiation lasts as long as three seconds (which may be time enough to duck into a doorway or sprint a couple of steps around a corner). The blast or shock wave races a mile in five seconds. After an air burst, stay where you are for at least a minute, and watch out for falling debris. After an underwater burst, the danger from radioactive mist may last for several hours...
Defeated Hopes. With the distance cut to two miles, the sprinting Eastern crews were conceded a better chance in the varsity race over the Westerners, who are trained for endurance. As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water. But at the mile mark it was already apparent that the East was outclassed again...