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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high scorer for Princeton, one of the top teams in the nation in floor and free throw accuracy, is captain John DeVoe, with a 15.8 average. Sophomore Dave Fulcomer, tallest starter, 6-6, averages 14.7, and Don Davidson, Ken MacKenzie and Fred Perkins all top 12. The Princeton offense is based on the "Princeton weave," a maneuver which works the ball in for close shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Meets Tigers, Lions In Weekend Cage Contests | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

...York's Representative Adam Clayton Powell, organized labor, which had apparently supported Ike's stand, began to backtrack. At week's end Walter Reuther made it clear that unless the Administration promised to withhold federal funds from segregated schools his powerful United Auto Workers would throw its influence behind a filibuster-provoking anti-segregation amendment to wreck the school bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pushing Ahead | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

McInerney added, "Griswold can't just suck all the food juice out of a lemon and then throw away the rind. Before Harvard entered the picture, Puente had subscribers to his series, but many cancelled when Harvard announced that they were doing the same thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflicting Court Schedule Postpones Puente Hearing | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

...Aramburu made a nationwide radio speech that opened the door for disgusted Peronistas to throw in with the new regime: "Many pinned their hopes to [Peronista] banners full of vain promises. They did not make a mistake; they were led into it. The guilty were not the simple folk, but those who raised the fraudulent banners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Blood Will Flow | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...based largely on deterrance, but of a different kind. It envisions a stalemate, in which neither side will want to be first on the atomic draw. It points to the impertinent and yet accurate predictions of the Chinese Communists that they go could provoke us plenty before we would throw an atomic bomb at them. Ridgway's answer is an adequate, up-to-date, highly mobile Army, which, if necessary, can fight and win localized wars. Ridgway and his followers believe that the mere existence of such an Army will deter would-be aggressors from adventures that might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Army and the General | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

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