Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shotgun pellets, and his tires were flattened by bullets. The holdup man leaped out, dodged to a pickup truck in a hail of lead, got into it and drove it into a ditch. He fell out, bleeding from two serious wounds and peppered with innumerable shotgun pellets, ran 20 yds. and surrendered to a deputy sheriff...
While newsmen and rifle experts looked on last week, the new weapons hurled rifle grenades 250 yds., sent tracers pinging off a tank at 400 yds. without a miss. In target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic...
...James Cox Brady's Casemate, the $36,-850 Metropolitan Handicap, over Piet (by half a length); at New York. ¶Manhattan College, a double (440-yds. and 880-yds.), in the Coliseum Relays; at Los Angeles. Seton Hall's Andy Stanfield also doubled (100-yd. dash and 220-yd. low hurdles), and the Illinois Athletic Club's Rev. Bob Richards pole-vaulted 15 ft. (for the ninth time). ¶The University of Delaware's lacrosse team, over Western Maryland, 17-2, as Delaware's Don Swan scored eleven goals to set a national scoring record...
...A.A.U. track & field championships in Manhattan. Gehrmann, who intended to run only in the 1,000-yd. event this time, never arrived; his plane was grounded in Milwaukee by bad weather. FBI-man Wilt, a New Yorker, had no such travel problems. He won the mile race (by 20 yds.) in 4:09.4. Other title winners...
...little 11th hole at [Tarrytown, N.Y.'s] Sleepy Hollow, a one-shotter of 142 yds., is, on the other hand, attractive and gay. It is comparatively easy. The trees are soft and inviting, the reflections in the water are lyric and I have tried to give just that impression in my colorful and atmospheric interpretation...