Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear and cool as 164 runners set out on the road to Boston, a welcome tailwind at their backs. By the time they reached the first checkpoint in Framingham, four men chugged together in the van: Kelley, Costes and the two Finns. By Auburndale, 10 miles from the finish, the race was already narrowed down to easy-striding Kelley the younger and the chop-gaited Viskari, with Kelley slightly ahead...
...however, was still flexing his muscles. Last week he added a military defense alliance with Saudi Arabia to a similar pact just signed with Syria. Three days after Israelis raided a border post held by his Syrian allies (killing three). Nasser's troops attacked an Israeli southern border "checkpoint." killing one. Next night 300 Israeli soldiers struck back at an Egyptian camel-corps post at Kuntila. killed five Egyptians, took 20 prisoners and fired 17 trucks...
...instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position and give your next checkpoint." Or he may order a cadet: "Stand tall, reach for the sky and look proud; you're an air cadet, Mister." But the competitive spirit of the new academy is probably best portrayed by the answer to "What is your altitude, Mister?" To this the cadet must say: "Five...
...from seven nations dropped down the same 1,750-yd. slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil's Dyke," slithered and bounced past the checkpoint called Tree, turned right to swing beneath a railway bridge and shot toward the finish line at better than 70 miles an hour. However their techniques varied, every team at St. Moritz had one thing more in common: they all rode sleds built by the defending bobsled champion, Switzerland...
Zouzou slammed down the phone, swept furiously out of the palace, got into the Cadillac and sped toward Alexandria at 75 m.p.h. Behind her, startled MPs phoned check points and organized pursuit. At the Kilometer 10 checkpoint, a scared soldier halted Zouzou...