Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing the blues because of injuries and poor pre-Australian performances. Only Coach Jim Kelly was unperturbed, and last week reports from Melbourne about warmup sessions proved him correct. Minnesota's Fortune Gordien ambled out to the practice field and spun his discus in a casual. 195-ft. toss that bettered his own world record. California's Cy Young, holder of the 1952 Olympic javelin mark (242 ft. ¾ in.), broke that record by flinging his spear...
...team put on a spectacular performance. Nearly all the injured had recovered; they bore down and won six out of eight events, swept the first three places in four of them. Parry O'Brien, world's best shotputter, got off a 60 ft. 4½ in. toss to stay in front of Teammates Bill Nieder and Ken Banturn. California's Bob Richards and Bob Gutowski cleared 14 ft. 8 in. and George Mattos reached 14 ft. to dominate the pole vault. Lanky Charley Dumas, only man ever to high jump 7 ft. officially, settled...
...will be connected with a university, but one that teaches only graduate students, and while he hopes to stimulate the study of asronomy in high schools and colleges there, he will largely be giving up teaching. Not again will he come home with a batch of Astronomy 1 essays, toss them onto the floor in a heap and settle back with two or three cans of beer to read them. This system, of course, had its disadvantages for the student whose paper was being read when he ran out of beer, for Bok always advised brevity...
...world for support, ABC was preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across the country were not contract-bound to carry the programs...
...Crimson halted Princeton's passing temporarily at the goal-line two minutes later, when Joslin intercepted a toss from Tom Morris, but the Tigers were not long in taking over again...