Word: groin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dashes. Duke's Dave Sime broke from the starting blocks in his trial heat, took four strides and collapsed onto the track, a flame of pain burning in his groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps...
...That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...
...qualify for the final Olympic trials in Los Angeles this week, Abilene Christian's blond blur, Bobby Morrow, paced the sprinters with a world-record-tying 0:10.2 in a 100-meter heat. (At Berkeley doctors hoped that Duke's David Sime, recuperating from a pulled groin muscle, would be able to resume his duel with Morrow at Los Angeles and try for an Olympic berth.) Pitt's lithe Negro star Arnie Sowell easily stood off Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield in an 800-meter heat and set a new A.A.U. record of 1 :49.8. For the first...
...made his bid on the turn of the 200-meter dash. Challenging for the lead, Dave Sime, the world's fastest man (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) and the nation's prime Olympic prospect in two events, suddenly grimaced, slowed to a painful hobble with a pulled groin muscle...
Picnic includes William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and Sarah Groin. Bring your own sandwiches. State and Orpheum. Orpheum understandably runs 15 minutes ahead of the sovereign State, which asserts itself...