Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohiri added to his lengthy list of injuries by pulling a thigh muscle during the broad jump competition. But this did not stop him from winning the event with a brilliant 24 ft., 1/4 in, leap, one of the best in the East this spring and something Harvard track hasn't seen for 25 years...
Ohirl's damn-the-torpedoes style of broad jumping is a joy to watch; he crashes into the pit practically head first, to get every last inch out of his leap...
...high jump will be another crucial event. Marty Beckwith, John Vessen, and the injured Jack Spitzberg of the Crimson will go against Yale's Sam Strelbert and Bill Flippin, and the points could fall either way. Last May, Beckwith's 6 ft., 4 in. leap helped threw the meet to the Crimson...
Hobie Armstong leaped 47 ft., 6 1/4 in. in his third competitive try at the hop, step, and jump to take second, and Zeke Azikiwe followed him in fourth. In the discus, Sarge Nichols finished second with a fine 154 ft., 10 1/4 in. effort, and Clyman took third. Sid Marland's 22 ft., 3 3/4 in. leap put him in a tie for second in the broad jump...
Hoffmann thought Hughes too anxious to "leap into the millennium," and Waskow too anxious to believe in "the seesaw metaphor." Figuring that the Soviet Union should be expected to act in its military self-interest. Hoffmann urged the continuation of America's deterrent posture and placed his faith in the self-restraint of strategists on both sides...