Word: thrower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking over TIME last February was hiring benign-looking Kurt Andersen, 38, editor of Spy magazine. If you haven't heard, Spy is the quintessence of witty and savage satire. It has not spared our proprietor, Time Warner, nor most other major American institutions. Have we unleashed a bomb thrower? Not to worry. Andersen, a man of very many talents, is a former writer in TIME's Nation section who wrote cover stores on Lee Iacocca, Jesse Helms and the death penalty. He is committed to our straight-news mission, although he promises, in the TIME tradition going back...
...preparation for Barcelona, German hammer thrower Heinz Weis, with his trainer and a biomechanist, have been poring over video data on Yuri Sedykh, the Soviet thrower who set a world record in 1986 that still stands. One element of Sedykh's success, they believe, was his ability to generate maximum power by keeping both feet on the ground as long as possible during the three or four preparatory spins. Scientists at the U.S. aquatic center, working with swimming coaches, have suggested changes to American backstroker Janie Wagstaff and freestyler Matt Biondi in their underwater pulling patterns. Biondi was urged...
...Crimson teams this year are co-captained by seniors Rita Raju and Cathy Griffin (whom Haggerty describes as the "most dominant thrower this league has ever seen") on the women's side, and Nick Sweeney and John Oakes on the men's. Sweeney, who is the Irish national record holder for the discus throw, is currently on leave of absence, but is expected to return in February...
Junior Joel Lamb is the most consistent and accurate thrower of the group...
Junior Joel Lamb is the most consistent and accurate thrower of the group...