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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most effective, and his conclusion impressed his audience: if only Americans understand, "then the sacrifice of money is not going to sound in their ears like the sacrifice of our sons on the battlefield. That is what we are trying to prevent . . . Let's not throw away the engines of this ship of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Double Attack | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Walt Stahura singled in a Crimson tally in the third for a 4-3 edge, and Harrington scored in the fourth, by a fielder's choice, a steal of second, a bad throw, and a wild pitch...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Green Edges Crimson, 7-6 | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

...speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reading, Writing & Rhubarb | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block in football than throw one of the girls in the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Shenandoah Valley his swift marches and countermarches totally baffled four Union commanders, and he defeated two of them (Fremont and Shields) in separate actions on succeeding days. When McClellan was strangling Richmond with his siege lines, Jackson broke through a Federal entrapment, raced down the valley to throw Washington into a panic, and then seemingly vanished from the earth-to appear days later on McClellan's flank outside Richmond. With fewer than 20,000 men, Jackson had in effect paralyzed 175,000 enemy troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Captain | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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