Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California in 1958." He pledged himself to serve out his "term or terms," but when asked if he might still be a presidential candidate in 1960, he replied: "No one has a crystal ball for 1960-or 1964." Vice President Richard Nixon's supporters immediately prepared to throw support to Knowland in his fight for the G.O.P. nomination against Governor Goodwin J. Knight, and the influential, conservative Los Angeles Times, already committed to Nixon for President in 1960, hinted that it liked Bill Knowland for governor...
...these are, as Burdette himself said, "the breaks." Had not Kubek made a high throw, Larsen might have escaped injury; and Burdette would have been far less of a hero if Bill Skowron's bases-loaded drive had not gone within reach of Eddie Mathews...
...surrender if you treat me as a prisoner of war." Thus began a strange, two-hour parley during which Yacef added one more condition: "Don't take Zohra away from me. We don't want to be separated." Finally, at 5:30 he shouted: "Throw up our clothes. We're nearly naked." Then, hands overhead and properly dressed, Yacef and Zohra came down...
...screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first of this season's 20-game winners and made him one of the six baseball pitchers to win 20 games eight times or more. The pitches he throws from his high-kicking windup are almost always on target. "My Dad had a theory about pitching," says Spahn. "He used to say that if you learned to throw properly, you could pitch forever without hurting your...
Like many other newspapers abroad, the Japanese press played the news from Arkansas with ill-concealed relish. But Japan's most influential daily, Asahi Shimbun, pointedly reminded its readers that perhaps Japan is in no position to throw rocks at Little Rock...