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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the flat, twisting course laid out on an old military airfield near Sebring, Fla., the world's best drivers and fastest cars met last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Struggle in the Stretch | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

One man with an outside chance to outdrive Brabham for the championship in the last Grand Prix race of 1959 was Britain's nonchalant Stirling Moss, 30, who, on a good day and when his car holds up, is probably the world's best driver. But Moss, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Struggle in the Stretch | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Although his championship was safe, Brabham decided to try to win the title in style. Burning .rubber, he was in first place and in the last mile of the 218.4-mile race when his Cooper-Climax faltered and stopped, just 500 yds. from the finish line; a leak had emptied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Struggle in the Stretch | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Four seasons ago they began quietly showing up in the wooden stands behind Natchez (Miss.) High School, and strolling with practiced nonchalance across the field after the game to introduce themselves to the kid with the whiplash passing arm. By the end of this year, there was hardly a football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capturing the Big Gun | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The scramble to grab off Dunn was a textbook piece on the ancient art of recruiting. In the modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capturing the Big Gun | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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