Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
...town to race in the Gran Premio de Cuba, Fangio was himself the prize of no ordinary kidnapers. His captors rushed to tell the world who they were, as they launched a week of revolutionary sabotage right in President Fulgencio Batista's front yard (see HEMISPHERE). No sooner had they hidden the racing ace than they were bragging to the newspapers: If President Batista wanted to hustle up the tourist trade with a big sports-car race next day, he would do it without Argentina's defending champion...
...Elis will open with a powerful 400-yard medley relay team of backstroker Jim Dolbey, breaststroker Joe Koletsky, butterflier Tim Jecko, and freestyler Roger Anderson. This quartet swims the distance in about 3:48. Coach Hal Ulen will counter with the best the Crimson can offer in Bill Murray, Jim Stanley, John Hammond, and Koni U1-brich. The best medley relay time the Crimson has ever done...
...only event which the varsity stands a good chance of winning is the 220-yard breaststroke, featuring Jim Stanley pitted against Koletsky...
...other races seem to be thoroughly in Yale's favor. Alexander and Sherman of the Elis do 2:14 in the 220-yard freestyle as against Dick Seaton's and Tom Cochran's 2:17. The 50-yard freestyle, always close, includes three Yalies who swim faster than Pete Zemo's fastest time this season. Roger Anderson has done the 100-free in the phenomenal time of 48.9 seconds. The varsity's best 100 man, Koni Ulbrich, swims it in about 53 seconds. The best the varsity can get in the backstroke is third, since the Bulldogs' best man does...