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Word: thrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of half-court pressure that Boston had employed on the boys from the Motor City in the first half (where the half-court pressure forces the other team to set up its offense earlier) was reversed on them in the second half. The result was a series of thrown-away passes, hurried shots, and overall sloppiness by the Celtics...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Pistons Overhaul Winless Celts, 100-85 | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...Sisters, a Phillips Brooks House program that worked to help young kids in the Columbia Point housing projects. In June 1972, Stephens was involved in an attempted theft of furniture from a Harvard House--furniture that was destined for use in the Columbia Point summer program. He was summarily thrown out of Harvard by the Ad Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Decade | 10/14/1977 | See Source »

...when first released in the mid-sixties, when an atmosphere of Cold-War hysteria still hung low, if somewhat less thick than in the 50's, over most of middle-America. But Alan Arkin's comic franticness in this tale about a small New England coastal village thrown into a frenzy when a Russian ship docks in its harbor and the Reds start mixing with the town-folk should still be good for some belly-laughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold War and Cold Blood | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...three sides of a floor-level stage), and which brings the audience uncomfortably close to the intense emotionality onstage. Watching the play becomes like eavesdropping on the people who live through the fire-door. The decor and lighting never change, and the costumes look as though they'd been thrown together out of somebody's attic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Many Trees | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...compatriots with a zest that captures the spirit of Dylan Thomas' immortal advice to mortal man. Forced to retire four years ago as social relations executive of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese-of Massachusetts, he has been crusading ever since against what he sees as the injustice of being "thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Pains and Pleasures of Being Thrown Out at 65 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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