In running his startling world record at Atlanta, Johnson injured his left hamstring muscle.
EUGENE, Ore .— An absent person's shadow will loom large over the men's 100 meters at the United States Olympic track and field trials — Usain Bolt of Jamaica, who set a startling world record of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix meet in New York on May 31.
Now, with Olympic gold to go with his world title and an even more startling world record to blow apart his old mark, he is master of a single and special trade.
He went back to the figure, in Ingres-like portraits, chiton-clad maidens and fleshy, somnolent Rubenesque nudes, who seem to know nothing at all about the race of erotic warriors he had introduced years before, or about the startling little worlds-within-the-world collages, so audacious and so delicate, that survive from the Cubist revolution, which was Picasso's very finest hour.
AFTER startling the world three years ago with the blizzard of hazardous space debris scattered by a secretive test of an anti-satellite missile, China this week tried a more upfront approach.
Considering the source, the breathless subject line was startling: THE WORLD'S FIRST SMART RIFLE – NOW IN SEMI-AUTO A smart gun, as you probably know, is one that can be fired only by an authorized person, such as the weapon's legal owner.
Herring, a young man who stood nearly six-and-a-half feet and carried some 250 pounds on his huge and well-proportioned frame, fondly reminded old grads of his father, an All-America tackle for Princeton in the days when a brand-new Cunarder named Lusitania was startling the world with her speed, and Harvard and Yale and Princeton really were the Big Three.
Our Strength (Poem from Children's Literature magazine, March 2010) You Yankee bastards, look in surprise at the sky; Then come here with bent heads, looking into the ground You wonder what power fired the Kwangmyongsong missile And how, startling the world, We broke new ground in C.N.C. technology You can't begin to know our military-first strength; It can't be measured with your yardsticks.
Considering the source, the breathless subject line was startling: THE WORLD'S FIRST SMART RIFLE - NOW IN SEMI-AUTO A smart gun, as you probably know, is one that can be fired only by an authorized person, such as the weapon's legal owner.
In a startling reversal, the world shaped by humanity — what one character describes as "dirty, tired, imperfect, winding down, at war with itself" — has been contaminated and invaded by purity.
The descent from comfort to disaster was startling and their World Cup hopes have been left to hang by a thread.
