Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boyish-looking John Patterson appeared on the Alabama political scene in 1954 when his father, Albert Patterson, then the reform-minded nominee for attorney general, was shot to death by hoodlums in vice-ridden Phenix City. Young John promptly filed for attorney general in his father's place, won easily, later helped in the drive to clean up Phenix City...
...seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked off on the stick, nosed up and over, began the long drop down. He had shot 91,249 ft. up into the sky-about two miles higher than the previous world's record.*It had taken precisely 27 minutes...
Dave Rosenthal won the first varsity event of his career, as he took the Landau-less low hurdles in 24.7 seconds. Hank Abbott continued his steady improvement in the shot put, winning the event with a toss of 47 feet, 3/8 inch, while Art Cahn won the half-mile in a comparatively fast...
Even without the key operatives, Crimson strong events, with at least a first and possibly a first-second, remain the 440, the broad jump, the high jump, and the pole vault. Hank Abbott or Jim Doty could win the shot and Art Cahn...
...Crimson pulled to a 3-0 halftime advantage on the strength of markers by Pyle and Mallonee in the first quarter and a bouncing shot by Mallonee in the second. Dave Birch scored on a long screened shot at 2:29 of the third period, before MacKinnon's shutout was ruined when Bob Shaunessy dropped the ball in front of an empty cage on an attempted clear...