Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest proposals, you will no longer find any mention of control posts at airfields ... It is useless to create control posts to watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even more emphasis to a brace of visiting British M.P.s. "Bombers are obsolete," he said. "You might as well throw them on the fire. You cannot send human flesh and blood to fight things like that." To keep up the psychological momentum, the Russians announced at week's end the successful testing of a new hydrogen warhead for a guided missile...
Despite the fabulous wealth already uncovered, archaeologists estimate that only 10% of Mayan ruins and treasures have been found. They also believe that new discoveries from the little known Olmec culture 'might throw a new light on early American history...
...block behind us, standing in a creek, and hitting them as regularly as any of us. The police-nabbed us boys up close to the church, put us in jail for a scare, but they never had any idea Lew was around. He escaped just because he could throw farther than the rest of us." Lew traded rocks for a baseball in order to get a job at the local American Viscose plant, whose factory team needed a pitcher. He improved fast enough to earn a baseball scholarship to the University of Richmond, and there a Yankee scout found...
Despite the President's attempt to throw a damp blanket over discussion of the Soviet feat, scientists, defense experts, and legislators have not hidden their concern. To them, the man-made moon is a signal for reappraisal of American defense structure and scientific ability...
This view was loudly seconded by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan who threw the meeting into an uproar when he exhorted the audience to vote "yes" on both the referendums on election day. Someone in the audience screamed, "Vote no, while someone else yelled, "Vote yes." Still another shouted, "Throw that heckler...