Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sigemund Snyder, Robert Gordon, and Steve Sheils were the only House competitors to pin their opponents. The referee for the tournament was varsity coach Robert Pickett...
...tall (6 ft. 6 in.), solemn, 17-year-old boy said a few polite words to the President of the U.S., then gave him the lapel pin worn by 40 finalists in the 18th annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Minutes later, unflustered by the company he had just kept, John Seymour Letcher Jr. sat jackknifed in a bus seat, lost in a scientific diagram he was sketching. Next day Letcher, who had won his Washington trip by building a particle accelerator, learned that he had won again. His prize: the $7,500 top award in the Westinghouse contest...
Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been...
...Foster maintained his four-year winning streak whipping Sid Bixler 12 to 4 at 177 lbs., but missing at least three opportunities to pin his opponent. Wrestling at 157 lbs., captain Joe Noble pulled out a close 5-2 decision against Amhert's Wade Williams...
...against King Holmes in the 167-lb. division. The only Crimson defeat of the afternoon came at 147 lbs., when former Pennsylvania high school champ Bob Thompson outclassed the varsity's Nick Estabrook by a decisive 15-6 margin. Estabrook was in trouble twice, each time narrowly averting a pin...