Word: vaultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field events Bob Mello took the pole vault with 13 feet, 3 inches, while Allen Wilson captured the shot put with 47 feet, 5 3/4 inches...
...back coded reports to OSS headquarters in Siena, always playing a nerve-racking hide & seek with the enemy. One night, they lay flattened out in a rainswept field listening to Nazi convoys splashing down the road 100 yards away; for several days, they were hidden in a church altar vault while German troopers camped below...
Other members of the expedition also went down and looked around. They found other caves and a 15-ft. underground torrent that rushed along to a tantalizing disappearance in a closed vault-the water level flush with the top of the vault's entrance. "With proper equipment," said Cosyns, "we may be able to go down . . . perhaps even one thousand meters." And the thought of exploring one kilometer below the earth was something to make any speleologist's eyes bug with anticipation...
Each event was carried out in clockwork regularity--typically English. Hardly had one event ended, when the next was begun. The pole vault, the first event of the afternoon, turned out to be perhaps the most thrilling of the entire meet. Harvard entry Bob Mello and Al Burger of Oxford both cleared 13 feet, but when the bar was raised six inches the two failed to go over in three tries. Since only! firsts count, the bar was lowered three inches to provide a winner. The tall Englishman didn't come close on his tries, but Mello, after missing...
...team traveled to Dublin two days later to compete in an open meet and a scheduled-meet between Queen's College of Belfast and Trinity College of Dublin at Belfast the following night. Al Wilson won the shot and discus in both meets. Mello in the pole vault, Grutzner in the 440, Sid Williams of Yale in the high hurdles, George Dole and Frank Effinger of Yale in the middle distances, and George Hipple turned in winning performances during the three days of track meets...