Word: javelined
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...wasn't especially fast or big so I narrowed the events in which I could participate to three: the high jump, the javelin, and the pole vault," Spanos said. "I thought it [pole valuting] looked ridiculous but one of my friends was doing it, so I gave it a shot. Seven feet was the first height I cleared. It seemed like a mile...
...fast. Back in Macedon, where men are men and some women are too, an athletic teen-ager named Eurydike is practicing her javelin toss and dreaming of asserting a claim to the throne. Eurydike is the granddaughter of Philip II; her grandmother was an Illyrian warrior whom Philip wed to seal a peace treaty. Renault handles the matter discreetly: "The lady would not have been his choice for her own sake; she was comely, but he had trouble remembering which sex he was in bed with...
...addition to a vast array of video-stereo equipment in the home room, he has a library of 2,000 movies, including the entire John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what it sees on a wide screen amidships. Hollywood Writer-Director Melville Shavelson has so much electronic gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says...
Running without the services of Gus Udo, Adam Dixon, Jay Hudson, and seniors Peter Nsiah and Mare Chapus (exam pressures and injuries), the Crimson still managed to rack up a total of four sweeps--100 meters. 400 meters, javelin, high jump--and all but two first places...
...outdone by the seniors, Garth Andrade, Jim Mullen and Joe Bowen put together a sweep in the javelin, with Andrade winning it with a throw of 193 ft. 11 1/2 in. Not bad, considering the two-inch deep mud in the infield...