Word: timere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchy Hebert and Dow Finsterwald matched stroke for stroke. Striding up to the 34th tee Hebert led by a single hole. Then Finsterwald cracked. By the time he had retrieved a shot from a ditch under a bridge, he was down two, with only two to play. Calmly Young-Timer Hebert matched his opponent's par three on the 35th hole and, winner 2 and 1, walked off with top prize money of $8,000. It was nearly three times as much as he had won all year...
Keiter's time, for an NCAA Championship meet record, was a blistering 22.1--only two tenths of a second off the American record and one tenth better than Dyer's best time of 22.2. Dyer was clocked at 22.4, but the timer's margin was not visible at the finish...
Djilas became a two-timer at Mitrovica after a secret trial last January on a charge of treasonable activity. His treason: an article in New York's Socialist New Leader calling the revolution in Hungary "the beginning of the end of Communism generally" (TIME, Dec. 24). Sentenced to three years' hard labor, Djilas, 46 and in good health, had every prospect of surviving his sentence, re-entering Yugoslav politics and even in time becoming one of the challengers for the mantle of the 64-year-old Tito. Since his arrest Djilas' following has grown. Yugoslav peasants, confronted...
...third run was never completed. At Santa Monica, tower operators heard Copilot Archie Twitchell's shocked voice exclaim from the DC-7B: "Midair collision! Midair collision!" Through a burst of radio interference came his agonized report: "We're going down! Uncontrollable! Uncontrollable!" After 34 years, Old-timer Twitchell understood the odds. His last message, clear and calm: "Say goodbye to everybody...
Watch what happens in the N.C.A.A. and A.A.U. meets in the next two weeks. Without fail there will be events, usually the sprints, in which the winner will not necessarily have the fastest time. A place judge overrules a timer, but the situation remains confusing when a man who takes third can go down in the record books with a faster time than those of two people who beat him in the same race...