Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has closed the Iroquois Club until June 4 as a result of the bombing prank at Elsie's delicatessen last Wednesday. A bomb was thrown into the building by two Club members who fled into the club, which is located directly across Mt. Auburn Street from the delicatessen...
...lectern of the city's fair pavilion and energetically joined in the applause for himself. Then, as the 1,806 delegates to the Seventh Congress of the Yugoslav League of Communists began to chant his name. Marshal Josip Broz Tito picked up the gauge which had been thrown at his feet by Nikita Khrushchev (TIME, April...
...social studies, and at least three years of Latin, Spanish, French, German or Hebrew. For students who are superior even at Bronx High, there are sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester, and at the end, most of the experimental group rated above 95 on a New York State Regents exam. This semester, class members are doing independent research, prowling into such...
...second race at Churchill Downs, Jockey Willie Hartack, aboard a maiden filly named Quail Egg, was thrown when Quail Egg reared in the starting gate, broke his left leg in the tumble. Winning on Quail Egg would have earned Willie some $200. Falling off cost him a ride on Kentucky Derby Favorite Tim Tarn, and a chance for upwards of $12,000 as his share of the purse...
Died. Helena Hill Weed, 83, Vassar '96, kinetic suffragette who crisscrossed the nation crusading for her right to vote (and was thrown into jail four times in Washington), member of the National Woman's Party and a founder of the Women's National Press Club; in San Jacinto, Calif...