Word: decathloner
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...decathlon made Jim Thorpe the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull. It won Glenn Morris a job playing Tarzan in the movies. It turned Bob Mathias, a 17-year-old high-schooler, into a national hero, and it earned a college education for a Negro lad named Rafer Johnson whose family were so poor that they lived in a boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints...
Jacks & Masters. Practically nobody has even heard of Toomey and Hodge, although they are the two best decathlon men in history. A kind of track meet in miniature, the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance yet devised. But except in Olympic years when it becomes the symbol of the original Greek games, it arouses little passion in the U.S. There won't be another Olympics until 1968; and so in the meantime, Toomey and Hodge have been slogging along, paying their own way to the few track meets in which the decathlon is held...
...kill was technically feasible and actually was carried out, two points, if the kill was technically brilliant. However, if the hunter is killed by his victim, he loses one point; if he kills a bystander, he loses two points. The first to win ten points is named a "decathlon" (as in the movie) and gets a party thrown in his honor...
...dash. Two years ago, Hill returned to Southern to build up his alma mater's record book. He works his boys six days a week, and if anyone gets uppity, Hill has a ready answer: "Let's race." A former decathlon star, he can still run the 100 in under 10 sec. and high jump 6 ft. 10 in. "Other coaches may be able to show you on a blackboard," says George Anderson, "but Coach Hill goes right out there and demonstrates. And beats you while...
...neat in a couple of sentences. We're in the twenty-first century (as Victim thuds dully onto the science-fiction bandwagon), and there's an international murder tournament called "The Hunt," government-run to sap the aggressions of potential war-mongeers. Anyone who survives ten hunts becomes a "decathlon" and retires with a lush government pension...