Word: flings
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Winner of the McLaughlin Trophy, given annually to the most valuable member of the freshman track team, the 6' 1" 215 1b. Chicagoan definitely has his own style. At most of the indoor meets last season, he would get up for his first throw and just fling the "thing" without the customary double twirl. Then with the event won, he spent his last two tries practicing the regular...
...huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left with his health broken by the fierce battles he had been forced to wage...
...care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named Ralph Partridge. Carrington married Partridge and shared him with Lytton; when Partridge fell in love with another woman and Carrington had a fling, the menage a trois became Waterloo Station. Though Strachey failed in a few gentlemanly attempts to consummate his fondness for Carrington, she remained in permanent thrall to him and committed suicide after his death from cancer...
...early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
Nosal won three events--the hammer, discus, and shotput--setting meet marks in the hammer with a 171' throw and the discus with a 149'5" fling...