Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spaceman and I were sitting under the intense heat, bombarded by devouring mass-media madness thrown up for TV cameras by worshipping little boys and the old timers ready to follow the Red Sox off of the earth for a pennant because they are tired of losing...
...first missed signal came in the first inning. After Stewart had gotten out of a three-hit, bases loaded jam tally-free, leadoff batter Peter Bannish walked on four pitches from a temporarily demoralized Ravinas. Two pitches later, Bannish was thrown out at second easily when Charlie Santos-Buch missed a sign to sacrifice...
...class of John Travolta's disco musical. It has more in common with such cheapie rock pictures as Rock, Rock, Rock and Rock Around the Clock, which Freed himself appeared in a generation ago. Like those films, American Hot Wax seems to have been thrown together in a few weeks; it relies on rude energy to overcome its essential slightness. Luckily, the energy is there-in the direction, some of the acting, and especially in the music. Any movie that features Chuck Berry stomping out Roll Over Beethoven and Jerry Lee Lewis igniting Great Balls of Fire cannot...
Furthermore, it is necessary to remember what is at stake as stockpiles dwindle and workers in other industries that depend on coal are thrown out of work. When the strike began last December, most utility plants and steel mills--prime clients for the low-sulphur bituminous coal that comes from the eastern fields--were sitting on stockpiles that in some cases approached 90 days, and averaged 75. These stockpiles were used as cynical chips in bargaining with the union throughout the winter; it is only since the huge mountains of coal that surrounded the electrical and steel producers in December...
...indexes in the world." To compile the old CPI, the Labor Department's 360 price inspectors (all but a handful of whom are housewives) had been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...