Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of misfortunes in the earlier action set up the dassling finish: Favored Art Croasdale took a disappointing fourth in the 35-lb. weight throw. Defending champion and Heptagonals record holder Aggrey Awori failed to qualify for the final heat of the 60-yard high hurdles. Favorite Walt Hewlett finished next-to-last in the two-mile run, almost a full-lap behind the winner. The mile relay team failed to score...
After these strong events, the Navy strength begins to break down. Jack Gleeson has scoring potential in the weight throw, but he could well be held to a scant two points behind the Crimson's favored Art Croasdale, Cornell's Tom Gage, and Army's Ed Schillo...
...this only be testimony to the mastery of Gitter's performance. The role of Barabas comprises nearly half of the play's lines, and Gitter carries the weight superbly. Slightly hunched, his mustache twitching with delight at his guile, Gitter simply oozes charm, duplicity and cunning. At the prospect of murder, his eyebrows wiggle and his voice rises to an ecstatic pitch. He combines the avariciousness of a Jewish pawn-shop broker with the greasiness of a Carmine DeSapio...
They now almost always buy the medium-weight suit that serves for eight out of the twelve months...
...street was jumping in those days, and in advance of the vogue, Monk bought a zoot suit and grew a beard; his mood, for a change, was just right for the time. The jazz world was astir under the crushing weight of swing; the big dance bands had carried off the healthiest child of Negro music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it?and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining...