Word: throw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sleepless Nights tosses and turns on such hard, solitary judgments. Mary McCarthy comes to mind and, oddly, so does the Ernest Hemingway of A Moveable Feast, who said that his book could be regarded as fiction though it also might throw light on autobiographical fact. Hardwick provides a similar safeguard when Elizabeth, her novel's unaltered ego, says to herself, "Why didn't you change your name? Then you could make up anything you like, without it seeming to be true when...
...academic freedom meant finding and speaking and acting the truth regardless of the consequences. I would have thought that in this case. Harvard ought to act on the merits of the case, without fear of retaliation. I would have thought that academic freedom would mean that the University would throw its considerable weight as an investor, as a leader of public opinion, into the field against apartheid. That is the lesson I would like to give my students...
...Lenz, runnerup in the hammer throw at Penn with a mangificent toss of over 199 feet, won the event yesterday. Colin Ball heaved the hammer 183 ft. 5 in. for a personal best and a second-place GBC finish...
...naked Buddha routine is no doubt a part of this. His voice rises in pitch and volume, his eyeballs bulge and dart forcefully as he spells out his voint. And Sunday, he was bolder than usual, after driving in four runs on two singles, and beating a right field throw to second base with a chin-first belly slide. Kansas City didn't count him as a base-running threat...
...tragedy of errors continued on the next play, when Crusader lead-off man Peter Colombo sent Scannell around third with a line single to left. Scannell came in standing up when Harvard left fielder Jim Peccerillo's throw sailed high, and Colombo made it all the way to third when Steward--backing up home--tried to get Colombo at second and javelined the ball into center field...