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...while Stones complained about the crouch, Embree could have griped about his run. Both runners need a lot of room for their approaches, and the officials angled the position of the pit to the right to accomodate the high stepping Stones. This in turn forced Embree to shorten his run from his usual ten steps down to eight. But the shortened run and the so-called poor footing that Stones also complained of, did not stop Embree from attaining what is now his second best mark of the season...
...approach to the high-jump bar at the Garden had been styled to accommodate the high-stepping Stones, who begins his Fosbury flop from the right side. Embree was forced to shorten his steps, but said this made little difference...
After Bruenn's initial examination, Mclntire did take the precaution of prescribing digitalis for the President's heart. Roosevelt took the drug in normal doses for the rest of his life. In addition, Mclntire ordered F.D.R. to shorten his work schedule to only six hours a day, a cutback that the President docilely accepted until the 1944 race against New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey began to quicken...
...crew bosses will also, by necessity, have to shorten the width of the boundaries--conceivably with massive landfill projects--to heighten the possibilities of collision, violence and general oar clashing. A natural outgrowth will be a finely-honed double-edged oar blade, sharp enough to cause at least a little bloodletting. "We need more donnybrooks, more bloodshed. We've got to get those hockey fans out on the banks," the profit hungry owners will be screaming...
Nixon urged the parties to move the national political conventions from the traditional July-August dates to September. His purpose is to shorten campaigns. He also proposed repeal of the "equal time provision" in order to permit TV and radio networks more flexibility in providing free time to major candidates...