Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liles also came up with a very good performance, placing third in the broad jump with a leap of 22 ft., 5 in., his best so far this year. In addition, Liles ran the 300-yard event...
...stunned Elis then watched Jay Hayden, who usually swims backstroke, pick up a third in the 50-yard freestyle, and Ian Finlayson, a freestyle sprinter all season, swim the 220-yard distance...
...aides gave a rueful rundown of the initial discussions between his boss and De Gaulle. Said he: "We spent the whole day shooting down three ideas. The first was that we British were 'disengagers.' The second was that we were just plain yellow, and the third was that we had separated from the rest of the girls' school...
Instead, the Western diplomats have become resigned to a third choice-a serious bargaining session between Russia and the West. The position papers that are being painstakingly prepared in Washington, Paris and London cover the familiar diplomatic counters-disarmament, disengagement, German unification-but the attitude is not one of simply giving way to Russia on them. If the Soviets really have serious bargaining in mind, they must give at least as much ground as they gain. The juggling by Western planners involves a study of which factors most distress Russia, how much Russia should be prepared...
...Gaston Defferre, who has brought efficiency to his long mismanaged city, won revenge for the loss of his Assembly seat in November by polling more than four times as many votes for mayor as the U.N.R. In Lyon, Jacques Soustelle, the dynamic organizer of the U.N.R., ran a poor third after Radical Socialists and Communists. The one big U.N.R. victor was Jacques Chaban-Delmas, president of the National Assembly, who could point to an outstanding twelve-year record as mayor of Bordeaux...