Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National A.A.U. games in Madison Square Garden looked at his measuring tape, rose from his knees, raised both hands and salaamed deeply to Parry O'Brien. The burly Air Force lieutenant had heaved the 16-lb. shot 61 ft. 5¼ in., breaking the indoor and outdoor records. Earlier, the New York Athletic Club's Bob Backus had flung the 35-lb., triangular-handled weight 63 ft. 10½ in., another record and another reminder that U.S. musclemen will be hard to match in next fall's Olympics...
...tone of The Nylon Safari is prevailingly lighthearted, the pace is readably headlong, and there is notably little spilling of blood or guts. Indeed, the Hemingway-Ruark axis of hairy-chested literary Tarzans may be somewhat miffed at the casual kiss-off Tiny Cloete gives their favorite outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain that she is out to slay the myth...
...best examples of what impressionism became under Bonnard's brush. In it, the transition from the blue tablecloth set in the cool interior of what is probably Bonnard's summer house, past the door and window, framing a dark-haired woman, to the shimmering outdoor vibrations, becomes a melodic, orchestrated movement from calm interior repose to the joyous peacefulness of a summer...
...Tokyo, City School Board Spokesman Masami Tsujita defended the board's disputed decision not to employ teachers under 5 ft. tall: "There are many difficulties involving teachers less than 5 ft. ... In outdoor activities it is difficult to locate her; in the classroom she will not be able to reach the top of the blackboard...
...election day, when the floor of the Commodore Hotel headquarters was littered with bitten fingernails, Sherman and Rachel Adams slipped quietly away and went sightseeing at the Bronx Zoo. That night Sinclair Weeks, later to become Commerce Secretary, gallantly remarked on Rachel's fresh outdoor complexion. "We've been to the zoo to see all the animals," she explained. "Ah," said Weeks, "quite a change from the campaign." Replied Rachel: "Not so much...