Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration said it was not bothering to assign one set to Stevenson supporters and another to Harriman backers, because "it hoped that a feeling of Party harmony will prevail among students gathered around the sets." The administration also appealed to Republicans not to throw things at the screen...
Barrett mourned the passing of the "snotty young man who could be counted on to throw bricks when needed" into what he termed the "academic...
...Professor Brameld's new theory of "reconstructionism" [July 9] we have a unique and insidious form of educational brainwashing. Throw out the textbooks and the values of our civilization and you pave the way for any demagogue to lead children to think as he sees fit. There's one absolute Professor Brameld can't reject-my determination that my child has a right to grow up unreconstructed. Parents of the world, unite...
...British press, which looks down its nose at the excitability of American reporters, the time had clearly come when it was permissible to throw off all restraint: Marilyn Monroe had landed in England. As she walked into the London Airport lounge, waiting ranks of straining newsmen swept forward, flung aside a police contingent and sent the cinema star flying disheveled behind a counter alcove for refuge. Reporters called hoarsely, hats and notebooks fell underfoot, cameramen jostled, someone bellowed: "Call out the riot squad." Finally, protected by a bar and a police bodyguard, Actress Monroe answered a few questions...
...which the best of competing jumpers qualified for spear-throwing, the four best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...