Word: lash
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...hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
...sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
Inasmuch as most of the underbrush has been cleared out of the Yard, no solution seems to present itself. Local potentates who lash the planned economy have certainly shown themselves incapable of intelligent foresight. One regrets that the Tercentenary Celebration could not be held in the dust Bowl, but this also seems difficult. Perhaps the next three hundred years will see the answer...
...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...
...Lash's victory-under conditions that made his time equivalent to at least three seconds less on a board track indoors- gave the U. S. a potential winner of the 5,000-metre race at Berlin next August. Trackmen who saw it last week rubbed their eyes, spoke of "The best race-all things considered-ever...