Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami on the eve of the convention, opposition candidates scurried about trying to throw up a stop-Hoffa united front. (One powerful new contender: Chicago Vice President William A. Lee.) But Jimmy Hoffa kept his pose as an unstoppable front runner, predicted confidently that he would win on the first ballot. Despite suits, threats of expulsion and all the revelations of the McClellan committee, it seemed, the Teamsters were still going to have the opportunity of replacing tarnished President David Daniel Beck with smirched and smirking James Riddle Hoffa...
...Crimson will probably throw more passes than most of its recent predeces- sors in the Stadium, and quarterback Walt Stahura will do most of the pitching, besides handling the punting and some running chores. The sort of day Stahura has, combined with the protection his line can give him, may very well determine the outcome of the game...
...social code revisions by the Inter-Fraternity Council to be submitted to the Faculty-Student Committee on Student Activiies, the prevalent attitude of the male student body was that things were pretty nice as they were last fall and that a chance accident should not cause Cornell to throw out its whole tradition of "blast house-parties...
...process of justice was allowed to take its orderly course, and it ended with Orval Faubus withdrawing his militiamen from Little Rock's Central High School. That done, the President of the U.S. could throw the power of moral suasion into achieving peaceful integration in Little Rock. "I am confident," said President Eisenhower, "that they [the people of Little Rock] will vigorously oppose any violence by extremists . . . I am confident that the citizens of the city of Little Rock and the State of Arkansas will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate that in their city and in their state, proper...
...standings last year, has lost its one-man team, Claude Benham, by graduation, and seems destined to drop even lower this year. With Aldo (Buff) Donelli taking over the coaching job from Lou Little who held it for 27 years, the Lions will have very little to throw against Brown, which has been made a 13-point favorite...