Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower opened the American League season last week with an easy, overhand toss (see NEWS IN PICTURES), then grabbed his shoulder with his left hand and made a grimace of pain. His bursitis was acting up. Washington Senators Manager Charley Dressen suggested a vibrator, but Ike had a treatment of his own: eight days of golf in Augusta. Curiously enough, his bursitis seems both to be improved by golf and to improve his game. Golf's controlled, smooth motions help the presidential shoulder, and the controlled, smooth motions made necessary by bursitis subdue Ike's tendency...
...Crimson's chances of victory, for the Big Red has placed two of its strongest runners in these events. Dick Wharton will battle cornell's Browne in the shorter race, while Al Wills takes on the home team's Rosenbaum in the mile: both races appear to be toss...
Underwater! (RKO Radio). Fill a bathing suit with Jane Russell, toss into water and mix well into a $3,000,000 movie. Season the movie with submarine photography, a few sharks, two treasurehunting skin-divers and one sunken Spanish galleon. The result is likely to be a lot of bullion. By the time Skin-Divers Richard Egan and Gilbert Roland surface with the gold ingots, Jane has displayed her more notable talents in high-cut shorts, low-cut dresses, pajamas, a nightgown, one-piece and two-piece swim suits. Her clothes designer can hardly be held responsible for the shape...
Goldman qualified for the finals in the weight on his last trial toss. He then took a third with a 56 footer, his best throw of the season, barely missing Olympic star Sam Felton's University record...
Yale, however, had two giants named Thomson and Henderson. Thomson threw the weight 58 ft. 10 1-2 in., only 1-8 in, under the Coxe Cago record, and Henderson followed him with a 55ft. 6 in. effort. Carl Goldman's excellent toss, which went well over 54 feet, was only good for a third. Thomson also won the shot put at 52 ft. 1 in, and again Henderson followed him, forcing Art Siler into third place...