Word: dashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters gulped. "Are you telling us," asked one, "that the President told you he would keep his hat in the ring?" Said Knowland, savoring every second: "I am telling you precisely that." Moments later the classroom bell clanged through Glatfelter Hall, and the reporters took the cue to dash for their telephones...
High Hopes. Already qualified as an Olympic broad-jumper, Johnson paced himself nicely through the decathlon, made it all look so easy that fans could almost believe him when he insisted that in regular meets, he often works far harder. He started out by winning the 100-meter dash. He won the broad jump, placed third in the shot put, dropped to ninth in the high jump, with an injured knee, but tied for first (with Notre Dame's Aubrey Lewis) in the 400-meter run, toughest of the first day's tests...
High Jump. The high-jumper's sound barrier was 7 ft. To jumpers, until last week, it was the equivalent of the 4-min. mile, the 9-sec. 100-yd. dash (not yet achieved), the 15-ft. pole vault. Like those, it was also a psychological barrier, hovering only half an inch above Walt Davis' 1953 world record. The high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete...
Because of the U.S. Olympic Committee's self-imposed arbitrary method of selecting the U.S. Olympic team, the injury suffered by Dave Sime last week may keep him from running the 200-meter dash in the games at Melbourne this November. The U.S. team will automatically be picked from the top men in the Olympic tryouts at month's end, but Sime's injury was not likely to heal in time to let him first qualify in the 200 meters at a pretrial meet this week in the National A.A.U. championships at Bakersfield, Calif. Fortunately, Sime qualified...
...Middle-Distance Runner Arnie Sowell, a wisp of a Negro with the delicate legs of a thoroughbred, who set an American record in the 800 meters at 1 :46.7, just a second slower than the worlds record; and, of course, Dave Sime, world record holder in the 220-yd. dash and the 220-yd. low hurdles, and co-holder of the world's record in the 100-yd. dash. As a backstop to Sime, Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow qualified for the final tryouts last week with a 200-meter dash of 0:10.4 and a 200-meter...