Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. 256 pages. Viking...
Colburn can run shorter distances too. He anchored the mile relay team that won the BAA's last month in 3:23.3 by running a sub-50 sec. quarter. And he proved he can run longer distances this fall by shattering cross-country records on three-mile courses...
Things were looking dark until Jim Baker iced the meet by capturing the two-mile run. Baker had been running along in second place for 15 laps, right on the shoulder of Yale's Frank Shorter. And then Baker kicked. No one had expected anything like that from the steady Englishman--a kick...
Baker kicked right past Shorter and kept on going. He turned his head to look back in the stretch and found there was no one anywhere near him. Baker snapped the tape in 9:08.8, lopping more than 14 seconds off the old meet record...
With both men, aggressive wrestling has become a necessity, partially because of their heights (even for light-weights they are noticeably shorter than most opponents). To escape the groping arms of lankier, taller wrestlers, they have to shoot their own moves first...