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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch, spun completely around, off balance, and rifled a perfect strike to the plate to throw out the Dodgers' speedy Billy Cox. Around big-league locker rooms, that play is still referred to as "The Throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

With a nostalgic air, the Senate and the House agreed last week to throw a towline to five creaking relics of the American past. U.S.S. Constitution, the famed "Old Ironsides" of the War of 1812, will be restored. U.S.S. Constellation, launched in 1797, will be presented to the citizens of Baltimore, and U.S.S. Hartford, Farragut's flagship in the Civil War, to the citizens of Mobile, Ala. U.S.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Anchors Aweigh | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Party-Girl Fees. Another silent witness was Andrew Frost, who was suspended a fortnight ago as assistant FHA director for New Mexico. Did he ask a contractor to throw a party, with girls, on the night of a ground-breaking ceremony? Did he attend another party at a motel in Alamogordo, N.Mex. at which a contractor supplied three girls at a cost of between $400 and $500? Did contractors pick up the tabs for two fishing trips to Mexico? Did a building supplier send him two carloads of concrete block for his own house? Frost refused to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: The Windfall Merchants | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Strategic Aim. The rebel leader at first seemed cold and reserved, but he warmed up in a hurry when asked about his objectives. "Primarily," he answered, "to throw Communism out of Guatemala . . . All the Guatemalan people are anxious for our arrival. But we must be prepared for every action of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: What It Was Like | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...Camillo apologizes to the mayor and they throw the marked decks into the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Laugh at Communism | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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