Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monsoon rains are already pelting South Viet Nam, but U.S. officers are confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They...
...steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...
...Baltimore Orioles, who freely admits that he is happy to be playing in the American League-where he is batting .322 and doesn't have to worry about Marichal any more. "Juan has no set pattern. He's got all that stuff, and he'll throw any of it in any situation...
...survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...
Eminent retiring professors are always likely prospects, but every so often the Fellows throw a change up and pick someone who's still teaching. (Douglas Bush, retiring Gurney Professor of English Literature, got a Litt.D. in 1959, for example.) So they might just pull William Alfred...