Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a heavy nighttime thunderstorm, when it suddenly skidded off the road and slammed sideways into a dead tree that broke with an eerie crunch. No one was seriously injured. Then freckled-faced Shirley Stith, 23, screamed out for her 18-month-old daughter Melanie Jane, who had been thrown through a hole in the bus's side...
...years fighting with fish and the men who want to catch them. He has done the job so well that he is generally rated the greatest saltwater fishing guide in the world. Over the years, he calculates, he has boated some 300,000 Ibs. of fish and has thrown back twice that much. His customers have broken 24 assorted world records...
Yale proved that its heavyweight varsity is as good as has been claimed when it won the EARC sprints at Princeton Saturday in record breaking time. The Crimson, a close second most of the race, finished third in the 2000 meter race after stroke Bob Lawrence was thrown from the boat eight strokes from the finish line...
...reasons for opposing the mass gatherings, von Stade cited the chance for injury caused by firecrackers, thrown bottles, and other missiles, and the danger of fire in the dormitories...
John C. Pittenger '51 3L, a proctor in Mower Hall, was doused twice with water thrown from Stoughton Hall and proceeded to take bursar's cards from "more than half" of the freshmen there...