Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone can tell, the time has not yet come when most Frenchmen are prepared to throw France's democracy overboard and give a free hand to De Gaulle or anyone else. But neither has the time come when they are prepared to confront the implications of the fear confessed two weeks ago by Socialist Robert Lacoste, outgoing French proconsul in Algeria. Said Lacoste to a French newsman: "Why is all the world against France? You believe it is because we are not in the current of history? Yes, you believe it. I also...
...combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...faltered only in the eventful third frame. Mouse Kasarjian led off by knocking a long triple to right center which centerfielder Bill Dickson reached but failed to hold. After Brigham had struck out, Tom Bergantino tapped a slow roller down the third base line, and Kasarjian just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide...
...Crimson power events were the two-mile race, in which Dyke Benjamin, Jim Schlaeppi, and captain Pete Reider swept the Indians; the hammer, which Dunc Johnson won with a throw of 154 feet, 8 1/4 inches, with Jim Doty second; the broad jump, with Henry Wente second to Downs; and the pole vault, where Dick Williams won at 11 feet, 6 inches, with Carl Pescosolido second...
...catcher flashed a signal and stuck up his mitt-a fat target. The pitcher frowned moodily and began his windup-a reluctant marksman. All evening, Cincinnati's big righthander, Brooks Lawrence, had been firing successfully past the St. Louis Cardinals. Now he seemed ready to throw and duck. And he had reason. Coiled in the batter's box was Stan ("The Man") Musial, the indestructible old pro whose potent bat has been tormenting National League pitchers ever since his rookie season with St. Louis 18 summers...