Word: toss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they could return to their units immediately. When a doctor told one man with a missing toe that his leg would not have to be amputated, the soldier smiled. "Great," he said. "I can go right back to my squad." Almost all of the victims were able to toss off nonchalant quips about their plight. In a Danang hospital, an interviewer asked an amputee what had happened to him. "Some bastard stepped on a mine," the soldier glowered. From the next bed another amputee brightly chimed in: "Yeah. I'm the bastard...
...victory margin, though relatively small, was much larger than any of the pre-meet predictions, most of which rated the meet as a toss-up among Harvard, Yale, and Army. The final team scores showed Harvard with 67 1/3, Yale with 59, and Army with 55 2/3. Penn was fourth with...
Reliable captain Dick Benka easily captured the shot pat with a toss of 55 ft. 7 in., nearly three feet ahead of teammate Charlie Ajootian, the runner-up. Both performers picked up more points for the Crimson later when Benka finished second in the discus throw and Ajootian came in fourth in a closely-contested hammer throw won by Harvard sophomore Ed Nosal. Only 2 1/2 feet separated the top four finishers...
Today's match with the Bruins is a toss-up. One of Brown's losses was a resounding 6-2 defeat at the hands of Princeton a team Harvard beat last Saturday 3-1. But the Crimson has dropped games to Pennsylvania and Army, and Brown had no trouble defeating either of these opponents...
...weight events, Charlie Ajootian captured the hammer throw with a 179 ft. 8 in. heave, Dick Benka won his expected shot put victory (56 ft.). Frank Champi turned in a winning 210 ft. 6 in. javelin toss, and Bruce Hedendal outthrew all of his rivals in the discus...