Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When pity finally traps him into becoming engaged, he gets into another panic and runs away again. But while running it occurs to him that compassion is the better part of pity. He returns to make up, but finds that the despairing lady has already thrown herself over a cliff...
Ivan goes to a magician, tells him biterly of all the chances he has thrown away in his life. If he had only known beforehand the outcome of his actions, he says, he would not be such a failure. The magician laughs and tells him that nothing would be changed. Then, to Ivan's amazement, he offers to prove it by sending him back twelve years. He may relive his life, and may even remember at every stage-if he wants to-what the consequences will...
Under the leadership of Charley Vivian, the Dunces rehearse their growing catalogue of numbers in the Dunster Large Common Room two evenings a week. When the night air is warm, the windows are thrown wide, and the strains come tumbling out into the courtyard for weary studiers to absorb...
Every year about this time three dozen high school grid stars who came to Harvard and went out for Freshman football discover that they are not just a crowd of backs and linemen thrown together under the guiding hand of Coach Henry Lamar, but that somehow or other they have metamorphosed into a smoothly functioning team...
...more & more U.S. atomic ovens go into operation? Soon it may become too dangerous to discharge waste into the air (as the few existing laboratories do now). Radioactive atoms cannot be safely buried in the ground; they spread widely and might contaminate plants, food, etc. They cannot be thrown into the sea; they would poison the fish, be sucked up in ships' boilers, evaporate and fall in radioactive rains...