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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly as workmen could throw up one-room wooden shelters designed to ward off the daily summer rains, whole families moved in. Others huddled in their cars parked in the muddy courtyard. Medical supplies were unavailable, and sanitary conditions were so bad that doctors feared epidemics would break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Somoza Stands Alone | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...studies pile up (154 to date), and federal money pours in, Deep Tunnel just keeps tunneling deeper. Meanwhile, housewives in one Chicago suburb resorted to their own program to keep the sewers from flooding: they covered the inlets with worn-out throw rugs during a downpour. Worked fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Everitt's plan was to seize McLemore before the Indians realized there was no money. "We were going to snatch him, throw him in the car and leave with him," Everitt says. McLemore, however, apparently made a break for safety earlier than planned, could not find Everitt's car, and jumped instead into an army Jeep. The soldiers, who had been waiting to arrest him, promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High Adventure In Colombia | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...that same meeting Dobrynin also accepted, once and for all, 5% as the limit on the increase or decrease in the length, diameter, launch weight and throw weight of an existing type of missile (this was a shorter list of parameters than the U.S. had originally sought). Nor could there be a change in the fuel type of an existing rocket, the number of stages, the maximum number of warheads or the minimum weight of individual warheads. These last two provisions were meant to prevent the Soviets from developing an SS-18 with a capacity to launch as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Who Conceded What to Whom | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Which fading reliever taught Elroy Face how to throw the fork-ball...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: How Much Do You Really Know About Baseball? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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