Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this spring. During the winter, hopes for a good outdoor season were dimmed with the injury of the versatile Tom Blodgett, who pulled a thigh muscle at the Army meet last February. Blodgett can be, at various times, the team's best hurdler, broad jumper pole valuter and javelin thrower, and the squad is tremendously dependent upon him. Reports that Blodgett had recovered were confirmed in the outdoor Army meet Saturday. When he collected four firsts in five events...
...aviation after graduating from high school in Bradford, Pa. in 1898. After a short hitch in the Spanish-American War, he went to Harvard instead of Yale because his teetotaling father believed that there were fewer saloons in Harvard Square than in New Haven. Piper was a star hammer thrower, graduated cum laude in 1903. He spent the next eleven years as a construction engineer, went back to Bradford in 1914 and became a successful oil-well operator. When the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. moved to Bradford, Piper became a director, though he had little interest in aviation...
...perhaps the year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
Even these moments were tinged with unreality. The egg-thrower, despicable as his act was (he hurled the missile and then dashed out an exit) is not the real enemy of disarmament--nor are his parent right-wing organizations. These people are easy to spot and easy to dislike, but they exert little direct influence over national policy and their mood scarcely reflects the temper of the nation...
...father was Cambyses. "the small King of the Persians' who ruled the Three Tribes living around the settlement called Parsagard, about 250 miles west of the Persian Gulf. Under Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed grain, the tools that plant it, the water that gives growth, the tame animals that cultivate it, and the human labor that garners its harvest...