Word: balled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman at the University of Southern California. Dallas Long switched from the 12-lb. to the 16-lb. ball, two months ago heaved it a prodigious 63 ft. 4 in. in a freshman meet. The field sloped too much to qualify the toss for a world mark, but it brought Parry O'Brien himself hustling down from the stands. He rushed to the dressing room, put on a track suit, and registered 63 ft. 6¾in. Said O'Brien: "I just hope I can fight him off for another year or two, but it's going...
Telling Hollywood's fortune is a tricky job that depends on the angle at which one leans over the crystal ball-and everyone in Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been...
Chuck Darby bounced a roller to the right side which was fielded by first baseman A1 Martin, but Martin's toss to Johnson covering first was wide. Darby moved to third on a sacrifice and an infield out. He scored the winning run when shortstop Mouse Kasarjian tossed the ball past Martin on a potential inning-ending grounder...
Their final score came after Crimson captain Hal Churchill accidentally kicked the ball out of bounds on his own one yard line. In the resulting line out, an Indian wing forward gained possession and dived over for three points...
Over a thousand people, by far the largest crowd of the season, watched the two clubs struggle to a scoreless tie in the first half. The Crimson suffered a harsh disappointment when wing forward Dave Kiely dribbled the ball over the Indians' goal line only to be tackled before he could touch it down...