Word: laning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford's David Churchill leaped 22 ft., 4 in. to edge Harvard's Liles by one-quarter of an inch in the broad jump, and Roger Lane of Oxford hurled the javelin 206 ft., 9 1-2 in. for another British triumph. Taylor tied the meet mark of 9.8 to win the 100, as Landau, Yeomans, and Cambridge's Dewi Roberts...
Frantic Frank Lane, Cleveland's general manager, contributed to the general hilarity by firing and rehiring his long-suffering manager, Joe Gordon. Rankled by the Frantic One's abusive comments and second-guessing, the Flash quit the team as soon as the Indians were officially eliminated from the pennant race. A day later, Lane assembled reporters to introduce his new field boss--a fellow named Gordon, replete with raise and two-year contract...
...second-place Cleveland Indians faded in the American League pennant race, terrible-tempered General Manager Frank Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and an offer promptly went out to the leading candidate on Lane's little list: the terrible-tempered Leo Durocher, former manager of the Dodgers and Giants, who quit his $65,000-a-year job with NBC-TV with the announced intention of returning to baseball...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowling Palace provides a barbershop and a beauty parlor open 24 hours a day for bowlers. Owner J. Curtis Sanford is planning a new $3,000,000, 100-lane center with a miniature golf course in the middle...
...share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York City, bowling alleys have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population is a safe ratio from the standpoint of profits...