Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...world of sport is more ephemeral than the careers of champion girl swimmers. No sooner do the girls reach their peak at around 18 than they get interested in careers or marriage, and become bored with thrashing through a chlorine-tanged pool. But in Sydney last week, Aussie Veteran Dawn Fraser staged one of the sport's great performances. Her age: an advanced...
...week belonged to Dawn. Mounting the starting blocks with Ilsa in the 440, dark-haired Dawn waggled her broad shoulders and cracked: "Anyone for a swim?" Then she loafed along behind Ilsa for seven of the eight laps before uncorking a demoralizing finishing sprint to win easily in 4:47.4. The race completely undermined Ilsa's hitherto calm confidence ("She's scared of Dawn," confided Coach Don Talbot), turned Dawn into a worldbeater. In the 110-yd. butterfly, a stroke she had taken up only recently to freshen her interest in swimming, Dawn clocked 1:10.8 to slice...
...Dawn was far from done. Churning far faster than her rivals, she swept through four laps in the 55-yd. pool in 2:11.6, to slash a full 3.1 sec. from her world's record...
...week salesgirl in an Adelaide department store, durable Dawn will add even more strength to the swimming team that will represent Australia in the Summer Olympics in Rome. After Dawn had finished rewriting the record book last week, one Aussie official gave way to arm-waving joy: "We'll clean up in Rome." No one said...
That morale did not recover until, weeks later, "in one slow, sweet cool of dawn, we saw against the horizon the low, purple silhouette of the hill of Montauk Point, Long Island . . . We heard the hoarse rattle of anchor chain through the hawsepipes. We were home...