Word: iness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago in his specialty, switched to the discus at the West Coast Relays and beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games...
...National A.A.U. championships. Among the featured performers: California's Parry O'Brien, 21, who had established two successive world records for shot-putting in the past few weeks with heaves of 59 ft. ¾ in. and 59 ft. 2⅜ in.; California's Sim Iness, 22, who broke the world discus record a fortnight ago with a toss of 190 ft. | in.; Kansas' Wes Santee, 21, who last month ran the fastest mile in U.S. history (4:02.4)* None of these heroes bettered his own best last week, but just as the crowd started to drift...
...Iness of the University of Southern California is an amiable young fellow of awesome proportions: 6 ft. 6 in., 250 lbs. Standing in the discus circle at the N.C.A.A. championships last week, Iness prepared for his final toss. Some 15,000 pairs of eyes were on him as he mopped his brow, pursed his lips, frowned, crouched, then went into his spin...
...more than a year, in the Olympics and in U.S. competition, Sim Iness had come tantalizingly close to the record. This time he got the plate-shaped discus off powerfully and easily. High and far it spun, then came down with a clunk-on the far side of the little red flag. Excited officials pegged the spot, then made a careful measurement: 190 ft. f in., more than 3 ft. farther than the world record set in 1949 by Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...
...Iness jubilantly tossed his towel in the air. But he was frankly a little surprised by his heave: "The discus left my hand so easy I didn't figure it was going very far. I never spun harder, but I didn't even finish with a grunt...