Word: vaultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening cinders, he attempted flight and sank deep into the growing piles of lapilli. He fought his way past the gates of the city, but once outside the walls...
Next afternoon Johnson took a third in the hurdles. Then, in the process of taking first place in the discus throw, he reinjured his left knee. Even so, he placed second in the pole vault, third in the javelin throw. But he dropped far back in the grinding 1,500-meter run. Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history...
...best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...
High Jump. The high-jumper's sound barrier was 7 ft. To jumpers, until last week, it was the equivalent of the 4-min. mile, the 9-sec. 100-yd. dash (not yet achieved), the 15-ft. pole vault. Like those, it was also a psychological barrier, hovering only half an inch above Walt Davis' 1953 world record. The high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete...
Birth Pains. Compared to most citadels of high finance, Eugene Black's World Bank is as odd as a platypus in a poultry yard. In its slabsided headquarters in Washington, D.C., it does not even have a vault. Once, when money was left lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates...