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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry S. Trumans seemed to be readjusting quickly to the existence of private citizens. At 7 one morning last week, Bess Truman stuck her head out the front door, hesitated, then started looking for her morning Kansas City Times. "They always throw it where you can't find it," said the former First Lady as she poked about in the shrubbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Plain Mr. Truman | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into the headlines as the hit of the 1932 Olympic Games, winning the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles. She disdained lipstick, plastered her hair back, talked out of the side of her mouth with a thick Texas drawl and riveted reporters with such remarks as: "Are you the guy who took pictures of my feet in Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...into his face. The treatment continued at Gestapo headquarters; it was refined to a point where Author Marshall drops the subject. To his own amazement, and to the complete confusion of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas did not once break down. When he felt himself near collapse, he tried to throw himself out of a window, but one of the torturers caught his legs and hauled him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alias Shelley | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...flight field of New England's best weight men will take part in the NEAAU shot put and weight throw championships is Briggs Cage tomorrow afternoon. Both college and club competitors in this area will take part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AAU Weight Events in Cage; Howe, Wills Enter BAA Meet | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

...pointed out "in New York a teacher's union claimed to be dominated by the Communist party. That's a proper subject for investigation. I wouldn't think we ought to go into businesses or colleges or everywhere else and just say, 'He's a Communist professor' and throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taft Opposes Congress Red Professor Inquiry | 1/20/1953 | See Source »

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