Word: throwings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle had other sops to throw-a third star for Brigadier General Jacques Massu, the balcony hero of the paratroopers, and France's highest military award, the Médaille Militaire, for teeter-tottering General Raoul Salan, who last week abandoned his flirtation with the ultras long enough to pledge that his army would "give to General de Gaulle the magnificent performance he has asked of us." De Gaulle also invited Salan and Massu to share the Bastille Day platform with him in Paris this week...
...special code to use over the telephone, gave false addresses to taxi drivers to confuse reporters. "I myself." says Board Director Takeshi Usami. "have been forced into such subterfuges as abandoning my own car and using streetcars, and then getting off the streetcar to walk, just in order to throw the press off my trail...
...housewife's whims with equal parts of salesmanship, psychology, hypnotism and common sense. Its name: impulse buying. The idea is not new, but with the rise of self-service supermarkets, super drug and variety stores, there is a greater incentive than ever before to encourage shoppers to throw away their shopping lists and buy more than they ever intended...
...failures, he learned to shorten his stride so that he no longer bangs his right elbow against his left knee when he follows through after a pitch. Unnecessary bases on balls and a chronic soreness in the elbow of his salary arm have disappeared almost overnight. "All I throw," says Turley, "is a fast ball, a curve, a slider and a changeup." The record proves the repertory to be more than rich enough...
...avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never cracked. They're like iron. Why?" A research project was hurriedly launched, provided the answer: ovenbirds in Sao Paulo build their rock-hard, crackproof, oven-shaped nests with a mixture of sand and cow dung...