Word: high-jumping
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...approach to the high-jump bar at the Garden had been styled to accommodate the high-stepping Stones, who begins his Fosbury flop from the right side. Embree was forced to shorten his steps, but said this made little difference...
Harvard's Mel Embree leaped into national prominence Friday night as he captured the high-jump title in the prestigious Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden with a leap...
Harvard trackmen swept the first three places in both the high-jump and the triple-jump and took first and second in the pole vault...
Though Kekkonen is sometimes accused of being the Kremlin's errand boy, he has actually performed an adroit balancing act in his dealings with the Soviets. A northern lumberman's son who was once the national high-jump champion (top performance: 6 ft. in 1924), Kekkonen fought the Russians during World War I and in 1940 was one of only two members of Parliament who voted against ceding any Finnish territory to the Soviets. In 1943, however, he realized that the Nazis were losing the war and concluded that Finland would have to adopt a policy of Soviet...
Charlie Ajootian and Ed Nosal took one-two in the 35-pound weight with a five-foot margin over the visitors' Don Cybulski. Jim Coleman bounced over the high-jump bar at 6 feet 3 inches to lead teammate Don Wilks in a similar sweep...