Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternatives other than the one they have taken. How else can they justify themselves--after all the social conscience doesn't pack up her bags in a huff and leave. Like God of Christian fable she waits and knocks insistently, perhaps pathetically, at the door after she's been thrown...
Called upon to deliver lines like "Saji says you play a mean sitar," Brown is frequently thrown for a loss by the script and the lazy incompetence of the direction. He nevertheless emerges with comparatively few scars and no crippling injuries. Still, patience is far rarer in audiences than in performers. Kenner is the third Brown film released so far this year (others: Riot, 100 Rifles), and viewers by this time may have grown justifiably weary of watching him in histrionic training...
...turned out to be harpies. Rosa reports an episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative paramour, she was once thrown out of a bordello "for being a low influence on the inmates." Money was a more reliable consolation. Apparently, most famous gunfighters, no matter which side of the law they were on, would do almost anything to get it. The James boys and the Younger brothers knocked over banks...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...
Winthrop downed Eliot in softball to tie for that championship, but the Jumbos won the "A" crew. A Winthrop oarsman caught a crab and was thrown into the wet Charles River. Eliot took advantage of this misfortune and won the race to regain the Straus Trophy from Joe Mullin's boys. And whatever happened to Leverett...