Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules. She could also take punishment like a man. During the Hungarian Revolution, she slipped over the Hungarian border without a visa. She was soon caught and thrown into a cold, grimy jail for seven weeks. By starving and brainwashing her, the Communists tried to force her to admit that she was guilty of espionage. But she never broke. "The old rules," she wrote later, "still held good in this as in any other conflict between human beings. If you fought hard enough, whatever was left of you afterward would not be found stripped of honor...
...victim is hanged after death, the blood vessels in the neck show a special pattern of rupture. If the victim is set on fire after death, the tendons, which are destroyed quite readily when a man is burned alive, for unknown reasons resist incineration. If the victim is thrown into water after death, the water will not reach the heart and there deposit algae, as it does whenever a man is actually drowned...
...everyone's amazement, the Tigers' strong point this season has been their offense, and the key to their offensive success has been tailback Ron Landeck. A defensive specialist for two years. Landeck this season has run for 613 yards, scored six touchdowns, and passed for 679 yards. He has thrown eleven touchdown passes--all in Ivy play--setting a new League record with three games...
...game against Brown, Princeton had demolished 14 straight opponents. They wasted no time making it 15 in a row, ripping off 53 yds. in three plays to score the first time they got their hands on the ball. When the day was over, Tailback Ron Landeck had thrown four touchdown passes and the final score...
...mean task, since among the Frank Morrisseys in Boston, the Frank in question sometimes used Francis, with an X. or J. thrown in, apparently at random, as a middle initial...