Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw up a "human chain" around the auditorium to keep them...
...since 1943 when he broke into the Negro leagues, Newcombe has been demonstrating his lusty skill on the diamond. Mrs. Effa Manley, owner of the Newark (N.J.) Eagles, gave him his first big chance in 1944 simply because he looked big enough (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.) to throw hard. By 1946 he was throwing hard enough to make his way to a Dodger farm club in Nashua. N.H. There, a mild-mannered manager named Walter Alston learned his first lessons in handling the moody pitcher. And an up-and-coming catcher named Roy Campanella learned how to needle...
When the expansion is completed, 5,000 Greek towns and villages will be able to throw away their olive-oil lamps. At the same time, Greece, which was badly mauled by two invasions and a Communist-led civil war, will have electricity to operate the machine tools and irrigation pumps that will power new factories, water old fields, help give the country a higher standard of living...
...said that he will negotiate for elections only with the French and not with South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Din Diem, whose government did not sign the Geneva Agreements. Ho, who fought the seven year Indo-China war in the guise of a local patriot eager to throw out French colonialism, now wants the French around to help him take over South Viet...
...Neither Midwestern heat nor blustery Kansas winds on the Wichita Country Club course could throw Uruguay's Fay Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...