Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam-and the race was still up front, where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn by half a length. Lincoln Road, hanging on gamely, was second. Noureddin, a fast-finishing long shot, was third. Silky was a sad twelfth. The red comet from California had fizzled out in the gaudy glare of the Derby. The hangover from the carnival still belonged to a brief, bright legend; the real horse race and the regal $118,000 went to the best horse...
...million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right on the beam; others are wildly exaggerated. President Eisenhower shot a thinly veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that he, for one, was not buying a car because everyone knew that prices are too high. Drivers who have never peeked under the hoods of their cars are sure they know...
Crucial events will be the 880, where Cahn must split the Slowik brothers; the shot, where either Jim Doty or Hank Abbott must place second behind Eli Bill Markle; and the relay, won by Yale when the teams met in the Penn Relays three weeks...
...enthusiastic carousel whirled on--Viking girls with paper-cup tankards, hawkers with a bag of tricks, a one-shot orgy of the cosmopolitan marketplace...
That the Crimson was able to keep the scoring down to 4 to 1 during the first half was a credit to goalie Dick MacKinnon, who was the outstanding performer for the varsity. MacKinnon came up with twenty-eight saves, many of them on extremely difficult shots. During the second half he blocked a shot, cleared the ball himself and raced through nine bewildered Tigers to take a shot on the opponents' goal--a rarity for any net-minder...