Word: javelin
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...blew the javelin straight...
Where the Soviets will shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough...
...freshman javelin, Elli J. M. Hinkle broke the Yale record with a winning ross of 229 ft., 1 in. Yardling Peeter Lamp, taking second place, shattered the Harvard University mark with a throw...
...javelin of steel, its streaking taper ending in a needle tip, that seems to arc through the air even while lying still...
...first in the pole vault at 12 ft., and Don Forte was in a fourth-place deadlock. Ted Bailey took the hammer at 186 ft., 6 in., followed by Leigh Callaway in fourth, and Tom Holcomb (186 ft., 4 in.) and Hobie Armstrong went one-two in the javelin...