Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner by almost four weeks. His circumnavigation cost more than five months and $8,600-every penny, yen, ruble, mark and franc of which Schuster carefully computed in his stained, penciled notebook...
...winner greeted his supporters with a characteristic mixture of serious talk and cracks about everything from his dog Freckles to his old antagonist, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. Among Kennedy's last words from the rostrum: "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence...
Westmoreland, radiating the virile confidence and irrepressible optimism that gave him the look and sound of a winner, had wanted badly to leave with victory in sight. Yet even as the Senate in Washington was unanimously confirming his appointment, Communist gunners were raking the South Vietnamese capital with Soviet-made rockets and mortar bombs. It is not as the winner that he bows out of Viet...
...revolutions, they keep right on re-electing the man of their choice, however dubious his chances of staying the course in office. Last week Ecuadorians went to the polls for the first time since the army sacked President José María Velasco Ibarra in 1961. The winner and new President: José María Velasco Ibarra...
Baseball games are not as predictable as those in football or basketball (no team here has a winning percentage better than .750), and so the tournament is run on a gruelling double-elimination basis. The winner must play five games in six days and sometimes a sixth on a day of rest and that requires a deep as well as talented pitching staff. U.S.C., accordingly, is the favorite here with four pitchers who have won either nine or ten games this year...