Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet, and the broad jump with 21 feet, 5 inches, and taking second in the high jump. Other individual winners were Bob Rittenburg in the hurdles, Alan Howe in the 600, Hal Gerry with a 10:04 two-mile run, Bob Curran with a 52 feet, 10 inch hammer throw, and Renny Little with a 2:24 thousand...
Newsmen charged that to throw them off the trail prison officials sent a closed van through the prison gate as a decoy. Then, under cover of darkness, they slipped May out. Not until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...
...followers of General de Gaulle greased the wheels of the tumbrel-they served notice that they would throw their votes against Pinay, instead of abstaining as has been their practice. The Catholic M.R.P., whose 88 deputies are Pinay's chief source of numerical strength, decided to drop the guillotine knife-they withdrew support from the Premier. All that remained was for Antoine Pinay to lay his neck on the block...
...even if the U.S. should throw off all tariffs, Europeans would have to sweat to close the trade gap with the U.S. Their production methods are still too costly, their plants too antiquated. Europe's form of capitalism, with its emphasis on low wages, is hobbled by production-control ling, price-fixing cartels. European management would have to learn that higher wages and better working conditions breed greater productivity; European labor would have to learn to work harder...
...letter of credit. Manheim told police that he reported the deal to the U.S. State Department, and was instructed to "play along" until the plot was ripe. Over the months, he bought the surplus U.S. Army materiel and rented the gas station, only a grenade's throw from Mamaroneck Harbor...