Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston game," a sort of cross between rugby and a free-for-all. A curious feature was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were being pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner, who had to stop and kick the ball...
With four candidates splitting the vote as they did last week, there was no chance that Alessandri could poll more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. Congress will have to choose between him and Runner-Up Allende within 50 days. But the voters clearly chose Businessman Alessandri, and Congress traditionally backs the people's choice...
Jampacked in Oslo's Bislett Stadium, 33,000 track fans one night last week howled for Australian Runner Herb Elliott to break his own world's record for 1,500 meters. Elliott was obviously out to please, but he finished 1.4 sec. off the record of 3:36 that he set last month in Göteborg, Sweden. "The going was hard and good, and I have no complaints," he gasped later, "except that I may be a little tired...
...Connecticut's Darien team 11-5. In the finals against Kankakee, Ill., Torres got plenty of early batting support. Andrés Galvan, the 65-lb. shortstop, homered over the center-field fence in the second inning, and Monterrey had six runs before Kankakee even got a base runner. Torres had a no-hitter for four innings, a shutout for five. Backed by four homers, he struck out eleven in the six-inning game, coasted to a 10-1 victory. The world champs trooped happily off to the five and ten on a shopping spree, hoped that any promises...
...breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel, went to Brazil's Irene Santos. Georgia's Myrtle Davis was tied with The Netherlands...