Word: sprinting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...middle-class department store, the Galeries Lafayette, she fell in love with a pale green at-home dress. Later she took in a bit of the Louvre-the Mona Lisa, Napoleon's crown, the Venus de Milo-along with two of her daughters, in a 40-minute sprint. Meanwhile, at a luncheon at the Diplomatic Press Association, her husband spoke again...
...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...