Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire meet. Harvard entry Bob Mello and Al Burger of Oxford both cleared 13 feet, but when the bar was raised six inches the two failed to go over in three tries. Since only! firsts count, the bar was lowered three inches to provide a winner. The tall Englishman didn't come close on his tries, but Mello, after missing the first two, the bar was raised six inches the two failed to go over in three tries. Since only 15 seconds while the bar bounced up and down, but it finally stayed on the edge to provide Mello...
Ronnie Berman brought American hopes to their peak by coming from behind in the 880 to beat out E. K. Robinson of Oxford in the stretch drive. Berman laid back until the last 100 yards and then literally ran Robinson into the ground. The game Englishman collapsed in the last five yards from exhaustion. The time of 1:54.9 was over a second and a half faster than Berman had ever done before...
When I arrived in New Orleans I met another Englishman, and together we visited the French Quarter and a small artificial beach. Wherever there's a sunny beach there are women, and at this particular man-made strand boys and girls play about 'til all hours. The lake is only four or five feet deep for quite a way out, and this provided an opportunity for the most copious necking I have ever seen in the water. Or for that matter, outside of the water...
Cracked one U.S. newsman: "I now have my lead: 'Persia expects every Englishman to do his duty...
...used realistic imagery in an effort to show that a poet does not simply reproduced what he sees, but rather sets down the music inspired by the sight. Later in his speech he urged that American authors build up an American language of their own and cease copying the Englishman's language...