Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business. In Britain Macmillan assured the Labor Opposition that the Christmas Island test would be held. "Those who carry responsibility and perhaps even those who aspire to responsibility must make decisions," he said. "We must rely on the power of the nuclear deterrent, or we must throw up the sponge...
...made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less insistent on enosis, i.e., union of Cyprus and Greece. He defiantly eulogized Cyprus' EOKA fighters for their "sacred sacrifice on the altar of freedom," proclaimed "our irrevocable decision to throw off the yoke of slavery." Cried he: "The arguments of the British government for holding on to the island cannot be put above self-determination. Neither can Middle East oil or the so-called defense of the free world from the soil of Cyprus . . . We do not want trusteeship...
...varsity had to wait until the top of the eighth to score the winning marker, again without the benefit of a hit. After Cleary walked, Simourian tried to sacrifice him to second, but the Cadet first baseman muffed the throw, advancing Cleary to third. Hastings drove him across with a tremendous sacrifice fly to center...
...Just Throw a Chestnut. Progressive moderns will cast a cold eye on a man who moons for the time when a Dodge car ("if your family happened to own a Dodge") was the best there was, who recalls the wonderful sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist...
...Crimson won easily, but Cornell isn't very good. Only two really good fielding plays were made all afternoon, a diving stop Cleary made of a ground single in right, and a good throw Phil Haughey made to cut down a runner in the third. But each of these men contributed some sloppy fielding, as Cleary chased into right to drop a pop fly and Haughey made some poor throws...