Word: two-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before a race he clumps up and down the course, a fireplug figure with eyes of icy blue looking for the crack or bump that could cost a precious hundredth of a second. On the Cortina run last month, Monti won his fourth straight two-man world title by teaming with Brakeman Renzo Alvera (who ekes out a living sweeping the local rink). In the four-man competition, Monti was back in third place on the final day when he laconically informed his crew that he was going for broke. Rocketing with controlled fury down the icy run, Monti gave...
...course, Monti dutifully made two trial runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close to 90 m.p.h. At the 180° Shady Corner curve, he swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow slotted straight away to pick up precious speed. When the times were computed, Monti had won the National A.A.U. two-man championship. What was more, Monti's best time of 1:12 broke the course...
...topic for the series is "Resolved: That Congress should be given the power to reverse decisions of the Supreme Court." The two-man teams will alternately argue the affirmative and negative sides of the resolution...
...soon as it became known that Charles Wilson intended to move in, he was met by a seven-man Commission on Human Relations and questioned about his job, the size of his family, whether or not he was a member of any active pressure groups (he was not). Then two-man teams moved through a two-block radius of Wilson's new house to acquaint each household with the facts about the new neighbors...
Married. Michael Flanders, 37, bearded British comedian of the two-man hit Broadway show At the Drop of a Hat; and Claudia Coburn Davis, 26, a research assistant with Radio Free Europe; in Manhattan...