Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White, who throw the winning pass in this year's Yale game, was one of the first varsity football players to win this award which is given "to that member of the junior varsity or varsity football squad who, by his enthusiasm for the game, and by his sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit, most nearly demonstrates those qualities so characteristic of Bill LaCroix...
Last May, in the second free election in Turkey's history, the governing Democratic Party honestly gave the people a chance to throw it out; instead the Democrats were triumphantly reinstalled with a staggering majority: 504 out of 541 Parliament seats...
...editor of the Detroit Times. "It's the L.A. Coliseum, fourth quarter. The Rams lead, 24-20. Remember? The Rams kick off and the Lions get the ball on their own 20-yard line. Bobby looks at the clock. There's ten minutes to play. Does Bobby throw the ball around like crazy and try for a quick touchdown? Hell no! That would give the Rams six minutes to catch up. Bobby takes his own sweet time. He uses up more than six minutes. Then he makes his touchdown and the Lions win. That's the kind...
...bottom of a pileup. Ball carriers who join the pros fresh from the unskilled slugfests of collegiate football learn fast how to fall with knees doubled and cleats in the air-a practice nicely calculated to scare off any unnecessary tackier. A runner who doesn't throw his arm in front of his face the moment he is brought down is either foolhardy or unconscious...
...Revenue Service Auditor Elmer T. Ponto, 34, devised a simplified income-tax table which has already saved the Government $95,199 and is expected to save $250,000 annually, was rewarded with a $675 cash prize, less $121.50 tax, which added enough to his year's income to throw him into a higher tax bracket...