Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's rebel is apt to be another's patriot, but the word terrorist can be properly applied to those who throw bombs into crowded cafés or churches...
Next afternoon Johnson took a third in the hurdles. Then, in the process of taking first place in the discus throw, he reinjured his left knee. Even so, he placed second in the pole vault, third in the javelin throw. But he dropped far back in the grinding 1,500-meter run. Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history...
Spectator Sport. In Chicago, after detectives uncovered a .44-caliber revolver, 100 bullets, eleven daggers, three switchblade knives, lock-picking tools, a lock puller and a tear-gas gun in the back of his car, Harry Owens explained: "My hobby is shooting. I throw daggers and knives to amuse myself. I studied locksmithing, and I like to watch people...
...seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 25 cents a throw...
...vintage, smoothed off, brightened and painted white inside, and furnished with Eero's furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero, working over his drafting table at night, glances up frequently to see Aline chewing up pencils over her writing...