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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything in his path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Elis will throw some of the nation's top swimmers against the Crimson in the finale before the regional and national championships. The Bulldogs have not lost a dual meet since 1945, and have not lost to the Crimson since...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Swimmers, Wrestlers to Encounter Tough Yale Teams as Season Ends | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

...second (2,000 m.p.h.), which is about the muzzle velocity of a high-power rifle bullet. The Air Force scientists expect much higher speeds. It is fortunate, they say, that the Tularosa Basin is not subject to earthquakes. Even a delicate motion of the earth might throw the track out of perfect alignment and wreck the next missile to be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missile Speedway | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...writing 1,500 letters a week. An expert on the subject after five marriages, Gibson says: "Women are really happiest when they are being abused. It's impossible to keep a woman comfortable and happy at the same time. I've lost more wives that way. I throw the verbal stones and the women lick their wounds and lie back in ecstasy." Sample stone: "Nothing makes a woman look more like a bag than wearing a sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Doty, who last week put a shot within four inches of a Harvard record while nursing an injured wrist, will have their work cut out for them. Army's Al Bagdonnas ranks as the nation's top collegiate weight man as the result of a 59-foot throw in a recent meet, and Cadet Bob Vance is another muscle-man who can put the shot over 50 feet...

Author: By Joseph T. Ferrucci, | Title: Squad Will Meet Army Trackmen | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

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