Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, the Army kept working on Jupiter, with Medaris and Von Braun shuttling between Huntsville and Washington, begging and borrowing Army research and development funds to keep going. Said Medaris: "We bend every effort we can to make up for whatever handicaps or checks have been thrown into it, and we tire people and wear them out, but we get it done." With the job of testing a nose cone for Jupiter, the Huntsville team kept going on Jupiter-C. Actually Jupiter-C-a bundle of rockets beefing up the Army's Redstone-was hardly kin to the sophisticated...
...betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents of her wardrobe thrown on the floor, her desk's secret drawer torn out. The secret police had done such a thorough job that she "no longer possessed a single letter from the Emperor Napoleon...
...Radcliffe freshmen: "Better not be engaged until twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...
...other actions the rules committee voted to change the penalty for out-of-bound kick-offs, to permit ineligible receivers to move downfield as soon as the ball is thrown rather than when first touched by a receiver, to tighten rules against defensive teams interfering with offensive signals, and to limit blockers to contact with only one arm and hand...
...group voted to change the penalty for out-of-bound kickoffs; to permit ineligible receivers to move downfield as soon as the ball is thrown; to make the existing rule against the defensive team "jamming" opponents' offensive signals more stringent; and to limit players to making contact with only one arm and hand in their blocking assignments...