Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopes for a Crimson first-place fell when defending one-meter diving champion Pete Dillingham finished second behind Yale's Kenny Welch. Welch exhibited near-perfect form on two dives to amass 155.8 points, compared to Dillingham's 148.17. Navy's Owen Davies flubbed one dive and wound up third with 145.87 points...
...Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee wound up its hearings on tide-lands and prepared to send to the Senate floor a bill which would carry out Dwight Eisenhower's campaign promise to give the states ownership of the oil-rich offshore lands lying within their historic boundaries...
...takeoff. Some of the jumpers windmilled their arms awkwardly in trying to keep balance (and lost form points); others misjudged their take-off timing (and lost distance points). Some of the best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers for U.S. Olympian Art Devlin-and Riisnaes...
Doing it just that way, with flawless form and breathtaking distance, Riisnaes soared 290 ft., longest of the championship and 3 ft. better than Devlin, on his first jump, wound up with 214.0 points to Runner-Up Devlin's 204.7. The new North American champion began his jumping career at the age of five in Norway, where he has since made a modest name in that land of giant jumpers. Riisnaes, who beat the best in the U.S., is currently just the junior champion of Norway...
Torrey twice stopped Amory Hubbard coming in all alone, but it was only a matter of time. In the last period, Hubbard wound up on his own blue line, then skated the length of the ice to shove the puck past Torrey. Ten minutes later he took a pass from Captain Walt Greeley in front of the Tiger net and scored-again...