Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown out, Mr. Butler may be thrown...
Mapping his own breakneck campaign, Republican Chamberlain must work with different equations. He knows that a huge Genesee County turnout, born of economic unrest, could swallow him up. He has therefore thrown most of his remarkable energies into holding his own in labor's county. "I will lose the county," he says, "but I'm trying to keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave...
...Parseghian, onetime Miami (Ohio) halfback, set out to rebuild manpower and morale. "You're just the patsies from Northwestern," he taunted his players. It worked. This year aroused Wildcats have won their first three games (Washington State, Stanford, Minnesota). On the first three plays Michigan backs were thrown for 17 yds. in losses. Northwestern scored a fantastic four touchdowns in a seven-minute stretch before Parseghian emptied his bench to temper the slaughter. Final score: Northwestern 55, Michigan...
Toward the end of his life, as he lay dying in an abandoned post office in Centerport, L.I. that he had bought as a studio-home, he watched the sea gulls flying past his window. "Their beaks," he wrote, "look like ivory thrown slowly through space." In words, it was the quality and response to nature Dove had spent all his life attempting to capture in paint...
...Crimson's only real scoring drive came late in the game, when quarterback Ron Johanson led the varsity into the end zone with a series of well-thrown passes, the last connecting with Glenn Haughie for the touchdown. But even this march was started when Johanson intercepted a Columbia pass on the Harvard...