Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snell began to think about quitting-while he was ahead. He wanted to spend time with his young wife Sally and at his job in public relations for Rothmans cigarette company in New Zealand. So last fall, he decided to top off his triumphal career with one last world tour...
...gone wrong? "Looking back, I think that I didn't work quite as hard as I did for Tokyo," said Snell. "I more or less achieved what I had set out to do and proved myself the best at the Olympics. I endeavored to hold on for the tour, but it just wasn't possible." Fans in New Zealand felt that if Snell had eased up on his training, it was because he had been a reluctant hero from the start, had never been able to summon the insatiable competitive instincts that keep driving most champions. When...
Whatever the reasons, Snell saw no possibility of regaining his championship form this season. Rather than make it eleven losses, he accepted the bitter truth. Canceling the rest of his tour, he announced that he was quitting racing altogether. "Perhaps this tour added a new dimension," he said in Germany. "At least people know I can take a defeat...
Szigeti met Bartok in the 1920's when he and the composer covered Europe in a concert tour...
...addictions were his undoing. Worn out by his trip and weakened by whisky that he soaked up after-but never during-his lecture tour, he died a month after sailing from New York. He had intended to read dozens of volumes of Americana before publishing his journal. As it is, despite inaccuracies, repetitions and typographical errors that would have dismayed him, White's vision of this once and future continent should be read by every Englishman who visits the U.S.-particularly if he intends to write about...