Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approach Gingerly. Even as a tubby kid enduring the snickering nickname "Podge," Parry O'Brien had always organized his life with a kind of compulsive neatness. Now he rearranged it methodically around an iron ball. Fraternity brothers in Phi Kappa Psi remember how he painted a shotput circle in the alley outside the fraternity house, to practice his technique-even at night. "You had to approach O'Brien gingerly," recalls one brother. "The thing was, you never knew whether he had just let go of the shot and it was headed in your direction...
...U.S.C. tennis courts. Caught off guard, he blurted out: "Lookit all them curves." Properly indignant, Sandra Cordrey told him to go put his shot. But the blunder evolved into romance, and next spring the pair were "pinned." Sandra soon got bored with playing second fiddle to a big iron BB. Often when they went on a date, the shot went along in its little plaid bag. En route to dinner or dance, Parry usually managed to pass a convenient field. He would park, peel off his shirt and get off a few practice tosses-lest the evening wind...
...been fun. But he has come a long way from the pudgy youngster playing on the muscle beaches of Santa Monica. "He could have been anything he wanted," insists Parry Sr. "He has more determination than four mules." As the time approaches to put away the iron ball and heft the more difficult load of earning a living, both father and son are as sure that Parry Jr. will succeed in business as they were that he would eventually heave the shot past...
...inspiration he experienced during his ten-month sojourn in the Soviet and satellites last year, Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera last week turned his own plush Mexico City gallery over to a show of his latest works: 150 oils, watercolors and drawings, all of people and places behind the Iron Curtain...
...hearty optimism, has taken a second look and clamped on unofficial rationing by cutting gasoline and fuel-oil deliveries by up to 20%. Despite earlier reports of big reserves, Germany's actual crude oil in storage probably totals no more than one month's supply; some steelmakers, iron foundries, chemical and glass firms have only enough for two weeks' production...