Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxicab drivers were suddenly ordered to report en masse for vehicle examination. Trains to Czestochowa did not arrive at stations, and prospective passengers were brusquely told, "There are no more tickets left." Buses and cars were stopped for endless roadside identity checks, detours and delays. Yet, despite the obstacles thrown up by Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime, some 300,000 devout Poles last week came by bus, car, train, horseback, buggy, bicycle or foot to the Jasna Gora monastery, the nation's most sacred shrine, which stands on a high hill overlooking Czestochowa. On May 3, the traditional...
Playing Little League, Pony League, Colt League and high school baseball in Pittsburgh, McDowell had thrown 40 no-hitters by the time he was 17. One day in 1960, he pitched Central Catholic High School to a 4-3 victory over South Hills Catholic High-collecting 18 strikeouts, batting a game-winning home run-and 20 big-league scouts posed for a group photograph in the stands. Sam signed with Cleveland for $77,000, spent five uneventful years bouncing back and forth between the minors and the Indians-uneventful except for his 41st and 42nd no-hitters against Spokane Indians...
...points, if the kill was technically brilliant. However, if the hunter is killed by his victim, he loses one point; if he kills a bystander, he loses two points. The first to win ten points is named a "decathlon" (as in the movie) and gets a party thrown in his honor...
Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, has thrown his support behind a plan to use upperclassmen as advisors to freshmen...
Better with Rats. All of these teachers, and the others on the cover, have some common qualities that tend to dispel what Cornell's Perkins calls the "marvelous smoke screen" teachers have thrown up to convey the notion that "what they are doing is an occult mystery." All have demonstrated sound scholarship through publication. All are immersed in a conviction that their scholarship has an irresistible relevance to life, and feel compelled to convey that relevance. And all believe that in sights, ideas, ways of thinking, methods of inquiry, are far more important to implant in young minds than...