Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A British western, shot in Spain, that achieves satire on the Hollywood horse opera by starring Jayne Mansfield as the sheriff's cutie...
...watching a track meet from the stands, saw University of Southern California Freshman Dallas Long uncork a heave of 63 ft. 4 in., apparently breaking O'Brien's world record. O'Brien promptly left his seat, changed into a track suit, went out and heaved the shot 63 ft. 6 in. Said O'Brien: "I had to do it. What would people think?" But neither performance counted because the field sloped...
...pushing other buttons. Farmer North shot in supplementary vitamins, mineral and hormone nutrients. Then he cut in the big noisemaker. In a channel in front of the silos a snakelike auger began to turn. As it writhed, it propelled the feed up a steep incline and sent it tumbling out through a conduit that passed directly over 330 feet of feed troughs. At regular intervals, trap doors automatically distributed the individual animal's feed. When all the animals on one side of a trough had been fed, the traps changed position, shunted feed to the animals waiting...
There were some bright spots, nonetheless. Jim Doty tossed the 35-lb. weight 55 ft., 10 1/2 in. to finish second to Army's Ed Bagdonas, and Hank Abbot took fourth in the shot put with a good 50 ft., 2 3/4 in. heave. Although Fitzgerald faltered in the mile, Fred Howard came out of nowhere on the last lap to salvage fifth place for the varsity, and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet for a third-place...
...scored from beyond 35 feet. Neither Pratt nor the varsity was ready for the wild attack launched by the Elis from the opening faceoff. Left-wing John Schley fought for the puck along the boards and passed across to center ice, where defenseman Bruce Smith fired Yale's first shot. As Pratt seemed distracted by action along the boards, the 40-foot waist-high blast whistled into the right corner for a goal...