Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
What Moscow took for a comforting backfire was actually the kick of a self-starter. The U.S. was just getting its draft machinery going again, after 17 months in dead storage. So far, few draftees had actually been inducted: men called up for examination got three weeks before reporting for service. Not until mid-September would sizable numbers of men (mostly at the top age of the draft call, 25 years old) be inducted. The nation's 3,659 local draft boards meanwhile were trying to update old files. The boards themselves had been snoozing in peacetime, and many...
...Wimbledon's center court next day, Patty took the first set with flashy attacks at the net, 6-1. Since Sedgman is a notably slow starter, this did not overly surprise the big, pro-Sedgman crowd. They sat back to watch Patty fade...
...else," he says, "we have trouble getting good scripts. All the wealth of NBC couldn't get me 18 good shows." His aim is "to show we can do things of delicacy and violence by using the arena theater in television. Isn't that enough for a starter...
General Motors Corp.'s Charles E. Wilson was even more optimistic. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, he charted the path which the U.S. should follow to realize the full benefits of the new industrial society it has created. As a starter, he contradicted critics who charged that the 4?-an-hour wage increase per year in G.M.'s new five-year labor contract will add fresh fuel to inflation. The increase is neither inflationary nor deflationary, he stated: "Unit costs are not increased, since productivity is assumed to increase [about...