Word: button
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What the crowd and judges had just seen was Harvard Sophomore Button in the free-skating event of the 1950 world's championship. All the judges had to do was to score Button (on a decimal scale from 1 to 6) for his performance...
...judges in rubber overshoes shuffled carefully out onto the ice rink of the Empire Stadium at Wembley, England last week, to confirm what a crowd of 8,000 already knew: that Dick Button of Englewood, NJ. was the best figure skater in the world...
...Impossible. Up went the judges' cardboard squares, and up went a roar of approval from the crowd: Button's severest critic gave him 5.7; one judge hoisted skating's highest accolade-the "impossible" 6. Later, when all the scores of the two-day competition had been tabulated, Olympic Champion Dick Button had run away from the opposition like Citation in his prime. Button's score: 1,419.47 points out of a possible 1,537.2. Hungary's Ede Kiraly,* European champion, won second honors with...
...When Button first donned figure skates at the age of twelve, he was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), fat (162 lbs.), awkward youngster. Eight years later he had gained 10 lbs., 8 in., and his third successive world title. Part of the explanation of his success, Dick Button says, is his Swiss-born coach Gus Lussi, who spotted him eight years ago on the Olympic rink at Lake Placid, N.Y., was impressed with the youngster's determination, if not his skill. Together they spend long hours sketching intricate free-skating routines to supplement the required "school figures" which...
This year Button, Lussi & Co. had sketched a corker: something called the double-double-Axel...