Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the rest of the team meets Boston College on home ground. Strongest are the weight men. Bill McCurdy, who coaches freshman track and supervises the varsity pound pushers, thinks his part of the squad should total the bulk of points ever opponents by the season...
Wilson might prove the wonder boy of the hammer. Never having thrown one before, he managed to hit over 55 feet with 35-pound weight in the cage this winter, only a foot less than the Harvard record. Dick Rubin, Bob Curran, and Eric Stromstead are also top men. Wilson also excels in the discus. McCurdy expects him to do better than 150 feet before June...
Trying to pound the club into the condition it apparently lost over the winter, Jordan has been sending the men through a variety of exercises. Besides standard calisthenics, the team spends time working on blocking dummies and such specialized devices as the Crowther apparatus...
...watching his fist, which trembled in the air an inch or two from my face. Then he brought it down to pound the press table. "Sixty-four million American boys, casualties, in the cold hills of Korea--and the cost of living, you can't get a good ham sandwich today--the Commies are back...
Cambridge has a 144-pound, five-foot-nine bow man, spectacularly small, by American standards. The oarsman, Harry Almond, is reputed to have an especially polished style, however...