Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hercules finally broached the subject of bodybuilding. He had avoided it until then afraid that it would be like talking to Johnny Unitas. "Oh yeah, Johnny, I throw a football too." Hercules had known something of the joy of pumping, but here was this man (the avatar!), this man who had built a temple to himself and carried it around, an objective correlative of his huge ego. What was it like...
...will probably throw up over his snow pants if he gets called cute or adorable ever again, but he is--cute, adorable...
Only in the weight events did Brown excel, and not unexpectedly. The Bruins won both, although Harvard placed second and third in the 35-lb. throw and third in the shot, enabling the Crimson to score points in every event...
Jerry Brown: The Democratic long shot no longer attacks businessmen as profit-grubbing plunderers of the environment, but he is having trouble fitting his "small is beautiful" philosophy to the realities of a $2.4 trillion economy. Brown convincingly argues that the nation's throw-away economy squanders scarce resources; yet he would vastly expand exploration of outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar...
...steps of his house and out into the garden; but José Van Dam's engaging Leporello is scarcely allowed to become the buffo scalawag that Mozart and Da Ponte had in mind. Edda Moser as Donna Anna, Teresa Berganza as Zerlina, Kenneth Riegel as Don Ottavio, all throw themselves into their roles with intensity, but only the exotic Kiri Te Kanawa, as Donna Elvira, manages to shake off some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed the spirit of the work. Here...