Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track scholarship-and says that he would rather be playing basketball. Last week in Mexico City, each in his own way demonstrated what the Olympic Games are all about. Oerter, the proud veteran, hurled the discus 212 ft. 6½ in., five feet farther than he had ever thrown it in his life. He set a Games record and became the first trackman ever to win his event in four successive Olympics. Beamon, the precocious newcomer, competing in his first Olympics, leaped 29 ft. 2½ in. on his very first try, to smash the world long-jump record...
...that after a time I ascribed human characteristics to the mutt. I talked to him constantly ('Let me tell you about the ambiguity of Henry James, Christie'). I taught him to sit up manlike, his spine leaning against the back of the davenport; and with my arm thrown buddy-like over his shoulder, we sat and 'watched' the television together. I even made him a little blue sweatshirt, a replica...
...Anthony Tisci, a son-in-law of Sam ("Momo") Giancana, commander of the 300-man Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...
Three times in the past three decades, Panamanian Politician Arnulfo Arias has been elected President of his small (pop. 1.3 million) country. Twice, in 1941 and 1951, he was thrown out of power. Both times he was ousted by Panama's National Guard, the country's only military force, which took exception to his highhanded policies and acted jointly with Arias' political enemies. The same thing happened again last week. Only eleven days after his inauguration for his latest term, the National Guard once more ousted Arias, who fled to safety in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone...
...NEAR STRIKE of the Buildings and Services Union at Radcliffe underlines the anachronistic inefficiency of the College residences. The strike was over as soon as it was threatened, because the residences would have been thrown into chaos without their service employees--no food, filthy johns, garbage piling up in the halls, and food deliveries rotting...