Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Appointed Round. Neither sleet nor snow nor Avery Brundage could stay France's Jean-Claude Killy, 24, from the swift completion of his appointed round. Favored to win all three Olympic Alpine races-downhill, giant slalom, special slalom-Killy was under tremendous pressure. "He's too tense," insisted Austria's Toni Sailer, himself a triple gold-medal winner in 1956. "He can't win." But on the day of the downhill, the pressure seemed to ease. Killy stood patiently at the starting gate, the picture of confidence as he awaited his turn and checked the speeds...
Separated from arboreal security and easy pickings of fruits and nuts, man's ancestors, says Morris, were forced to become hunters to survive. In the swift pace of the hunt, those with the least body hair became least overheated and ran down the most game; through a process of evolutionary selection, man gradually shed his furry coat entirely. Those who competed most effectively with the stronger and swifter carnivores of the open spaces were those who began to walk and run in an upright position, increasing their speed and freeing their hands to grasp weapons of the hunt. Those...
...British Nationals in July, he ran the fastest freshman half-mile in the country and shattered the university record with a swift...
...swift senior, who has shattered four Harvard records so far this season, set his newest mark running in the K.C. meet's O'Reilly Mile against the likes of Sweden's UIf Hoeberg, who won the race and set Meet and Garden records with his 4:02.3, and Villanova's Dave Patrick, IC4A and NCAA titlist. Both have run sub-four minute miles. Baker's time was only good enough for a fifth place finish...
...people concerned about the permanency of material things," asks Conner, "when they themselves may not be here tomorrow" His entire output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...