Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Premier Guy Mollet hesitated between proclaiming a cease-fire outright as a starter and continuing secret efforts to talk the rebels into a cease-fire agreement, terror tightened its grip on Algeria. Much of the terror was to influence the vote. Halfway through an afternoon of football, bombs exploded simultaneously in two packed stadiums on opposite sides of Algiers, killing twelve and wounding 60. A father bent in horror over the headless body of his 20-year-old daughter. A Moslem candy vendor stared at the mangled form of his helper, took off running with his case of sweets...
...foil, much depends on the form of captain Hubert Hocutt, who lost two of three against Trinity. Hocutt should win at leaset two if he has a good day, and Peter Boyce is almost certain to win all three of his bouts. Mike Klapper is the third starter, with Bill Trebilcock in reserve...
...couple of Olympic champions, Ron Delany and Tom Courtney, ran away with everything but the starter's gun at the 68th annual Boston Athletic Association games. Loping along just back of the pacesetters in the 600-yd. run, Fordham Alumnus Courtney shifted into high on the backstretch of the next-to-last lap, shot into the lead and finished 20 yds. in front of Villanova's Joe Gaffney, who now runs for the Army. It all seemed so easy that even Tom was surprised to hear his time: a world-record-equaling 1:09.5. In the mile...
...book months in advance of such big stakes as the Garden State or the Kentucky Derby, pick their horse from a long list of possible entries at odds as high as 1,000 to 1, get back 10% of their bet if their horse simply started. If an added starter, not on the Caliente list, beat a bettor out of the money, Caliente paid off anyway...
...weather had been gloomy for weeks, but for the games it kindly brightened. From the opening shot of a starter's gun, they got off to a crowd-pleasing start, and Olympic records fell like eucalyptus leaves. And, scorekeeping or no, it quickly became a suspenseful duel between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. fielded the best team ever assembled- including such 1952 Olympic champions as Shotputter Parry O'Brien (see below). Soviet Russia, shut out of all the gold medals in men's track at the Helsinki Olympics, sent to Australia a well-trained and determined...