Word: thrown
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...