Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mankato, Minn. (pop. 32,000), Jim Chalgren, 27, and five other men were thrown out of the Trader and Trapper Discotheque in 1976 for dancing together. Now Chalgren occasionally dances with other men in bars and encounters nothing worse than name-calling. In fact, he has organized gay dances that are held every three or four months in hotel ballrooms, drawing crowds of as many as 130. But, he says, "there are people who meet at our dances who will avoid each other if they cross paths in a hardware store. It can still be a disaster to be identified...
Saturday morning was gloomy on Lake Carnegic. There was a light wind blowing and a misty rain falling--but at least the water was calm. The stage was set for a heavyweight showdown between Radcliffe and Princeton (with Cornell thrown in for additional wake production...
...seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with one arm outstretched, one cocked at the elbow; the head thrown to the side completes the modified Christ-image. Under each arm blazes an inscription, one reading IN PEACE AND WAR, the other SERVICE TO THE NATION. In contrast to the deadening solemnity of the lobby, the halls are brightly colored passageways strewn with security devices and guards...
...offensive against the Pentagon's economy drive. New Jersey's 17-member delegation will challenge the Pentagon's estimate of the $16 million in savings that could be made by shifting Dix's basic training function to Fort Jackson, S.C. "We've certainly not thrown in the towel," says Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. "In the past when attempts were made to transfer Dix's training function somewhere else, a united New Jersey delegation has worked wonders." Ironically, many of the legislators who oppose the Pentagon's economy drive are severe critics of military...
Stewart added that "I can say for sure, though, that if there had been two outs when I had two strikes on the next guy (Shepard), I certainly wouldn't have thrown the curve ball to him, like I did with one out." "The curve ball" turned out to be the wild pitch...