Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico City for the annual running of the "Caribbean Classic," Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, ran into a stretch of bad luck. First, the general, who seized power in a coup 14 months ago, lost a bundle on a Panamanian nag that had the nerve to finish fifth in a field of twelve. Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup. The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even Panama has experienced before...
...made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber, 49, liberal former pastor of the experimental East Harlem Protestant Parish. Out went required courses; in came such things as a part-time bachelor-of-divinity program, which those in secular employment can finish in five years...
...fans anxiously await the battles between the N.F.L. and A.F.L. divisional champions, Washington fans can relax and contemplate their bright future. The Redskins, who had not enjoyed a winning season since 1955, had by week's end fashioned a 7-4-2 record to clinch a second-place finish behind Dallas in the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division. Good as that was, Lombardi was not satisfied: "Let's not get all worked up about this team. We still have a long way to go, and a lot of areas need shoring...
Another difference was that the horse in question won with a strong finish. The Raccoon showed himself to be a voracious eater at the outset, but when the going got tough, he had trouble eating the final pancakes and was not still enjoying them as the rest of us were. He crawled across the finish line in a manner hardly befitting a champion...
...this melodramatic point, the film achieves its peak. Sailor's face empurples, his lips work and bubble, his body goes limp. "Walk, you son of a bitch, walk!" screams Gloria, carrying a corpse on her back, defying Rocky, circumstances, the Depression-and finally life itself in a racking finish that leaves the spectator as weary, and in a sense, as degraded as the participants. But it is precisely because of Gloria's inexhaustible drive that the film buckles. The dancers stay up for more than a thousand hours. The hall becomes a human zoo where legs, spines...