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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haired youngster just four years out of an Oklahoma high school, with NEW YORK spelled out in block letters on his flannel shirt, a big numeral 7 on his back. As it must to all other clubs in the American League, came the plaguing question: What does a pitcher throw to Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Man on Olympus | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...CRIMSON will throw its traditional post-Yale game party this afternoon in its building at 14 Plympton St. for all former CRIMSON editors in reuniting classes and for all other interested alumni. Families are invited and liquid refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Opens Plympton Door To Old Editors After Yale Tilt | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

Florida's William H. Johnston is a broad-beamed, red-faced gambling tycoon who likes to play Santa Claus for a children's hospital, act like a civic leader in Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Catching the Rabbit | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...sorts of consequences. Haitian businessmen suffered from it, because they could not find much of a market for woolens, gabardines or satins. Most Haitians stuck to washable linens, since only a few of the rich could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion of nimble seamstresses were affected, because they could exercise their skill only on the familiar old linens. Diplomats were affected, because keeping a morning coat or a uniform presentable was a major problem. Jimmy Plinton, a U.S. Air Force instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Dry-Cleaning Knight | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Angry Carlos Romulo was undecided whether to run as a third-party candidate, or to throw his strength to Nacionalista Nominee Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-fighting ex-Secretary of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Unanimous | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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