Word: pond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mireille is left to soak in the tub for 48 hours, then driven to a Paris suburb and dumped into a pond. A bit later, when Ravinel returns to discover his wife's "suicide." her body has disappeared...
...jump bar higher than the world record. He first cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly challenged anyone to prove that his star pupil did not use a one-footed take-off as required by high-jumping rules...
Swedish Coach Linden, after watching Browning, went over to Coach Pond and said: "Fabulous! I congratulate you." Then the missionaries from Sweden, who have yet to lose a meet in the U.S., packed up to carry the calisthenic word to points as far south as Florida...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
Retorted Gym Coach Pond: "The minute Browning can get off the ground on one foot and clear the stick somewhat over 6 ft., we'll enter him in a meet." Track Coach Johnson, it was pointed out, has the final say on which Illini athletes enter collegiate track meets. "Well," said Coach Pond, "maybe we could enter him in A.A.U. competition." Growled Coach Johnson, who has refused to take even a peek at Browning: "It's a hoax...