Word: toomey
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...schooler, into a national hero, and it earned a college education for a Negro lad named Rafer Johnson whose family were so poor that they lived in a boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints and heel spurs; Russ has bursitis in his elbow, tendinitis in his knee, and strained ligaments in his ankle...
Jacks & Masters. Practically nobody has even heard of Toomey and Hodge, although they are the two best decathlon men in history. A kind of track meet in miniature, the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance yet devised. But except in Olympic years when it becomes the symbol of the original Greek games, it arouses little passion in the U.S. There won't be another Olympics until 1968; and so in the meantime, Toomey and Hodge have been slogging along, paying their own way to the few track meets in which the decathlon is held...
...fight over the present bond issue, however, the governor has said that he would reject his own bill if it contained a local veto. Nevertheless, the House, led by Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), restored the veto before sending the bond issue to the Senate...
Governor Peabody was contacted and he pledged his support, but only after the election, since he was courting the support of McCann and Rep. John I. Toomey (D-Cam.) then chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee an ardent underpass advocate...
...hearing in the State House McCann was one of two men to testify against three bills that would either repeal the legislation authorizing the underpasses or subject their construction to new controls. The other opponent of the legislation was Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge) who echoed McCann's sentiments...