Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle in Perak. On the ground, patrols crept toward the shattered target areas, cutting their way through underbrush as high as a man's head. British artillery plastered one sector near Sungei Siput with 25-pounders. An Australian battery poured mortar fire into another area, while only 400 yds. away a platoon of weary New Zealanders sweated out their 15th day of waiting for the enemy to show himself. For 33,000 Malayan and other Commonwealth troops, it was an exasperating kind of war which in three months had resulted in the capture or surrender of only nine terrorists...
...warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
...horse. But the feed never turns to fat; it only stokes Silky's fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads...
Fifty-three hours after the accident, the submerged bus was finally hooked 200 yds. from the point where it hit the water. Cables were lashed on by Navy frogmen: two tractors winched the tragic cargo ashore. As the first bodies were carried out, the Rev. Ivan Jones of West Prestonsburg's Assembly of God Church called for a moment of prayer. "Lord strengthen our hearts in this trying time...
...title, then in the race itself made a gut-wrenching rush in the last two laps to win. Less than an hour later, he jogged out for the grueling two-mile grind, found the wind for one more of his famous finishing kicks and won by 6 yds. Still scorning records and running simply to win. Ron scored his double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey...