Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...
...other field events, the U.S. put on display an unrivaled roster of world champions, and each of them came through without serious challenge. Harold Connolly easily won his specialty, the hammer. Marine Lieut. Al Cantello (TIME, June 15) won the javelin, even though his winning toss was some 35 ft. shy of his pending world mark. Parry O'Brien, 28, rippling his muscles amid assorted grunts, snorts and grimaces, heaved the shot 62 ft. 2 in. for his seventh A.A.U. title in eight years, took dead aim on an Olympic gold medal...
...weapons with which the old French National Assembly battered the 24 postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
...Tiger sophomore Dick Edmunds won by a step, establishing a new meet record. Benjamin's bid for a University mile record fell short, as he was beaten by teammate Jed Fitzgerald in 4:16.2. John Bronstein won the discus with an excellent 158 ft., 33/4 in. toss, and John deKiewiet took the high jump for the second straight week...
...rest of the singles matches are frankly toss-ups, with tentative predictions giving Yale the edge at two and four, Harvard the advantage at three, five and six. No one really knows about seven through ten, because neither side has faced any meaningful opposition down at this level...