Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American 400-meter hurdle record of 50.9. ¶b Polevaulters Bob Richards (handicapped by a muscle pull) and Don Laz, two top-notch 15-footers, who tied for first with a respectable 14 ft. 8 in. ¶Shotputter Jim Fuchs, world recordholder, who won with a toss...
What held these two utterly different, passionately neurotic human beings together? The Authors Hanson, themselves a husband & wife team, approach the racked double bed of the Carlyle marriage with the serenity of Harley Street specialists, noting every hypochondriacal toss, turn and outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...
...Grutzner should win the quarter without much trouble, with the Crimson hoping for a possible sweep in this event. Both John Pachard and Berman will probrably run; either is capable of beating Yale's top man, John Meader. The relay appears to be a toss...
...adjoining buildings, they burned down the laundry building, set fires in three others. Guards and state police surrounded the rioters with machine guns and shotguns. Shouting defiance across the prison yard, Ward held a knife at a guard's back as Crazy Jack warned: "We'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting." But as flying wedges of guards and troopers moved in, one convict was killed and eight others wounded under orders to shoot to kill if necessary...
...Felton, former College weight star and present national hammer champion, broke the 20-year-old Penn Relay hammer record of 175 feet, 2 1/2 Inches Saturday with a toss of 183 feet, 2 3/8 Inches...