Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chestnut seedling in a park. Aware that she was in the city that beer helped make famous, she tactfully omitted mentioning discarded beer cans when she called litter "one of the greatest detractors of beauty," then praised the beer industry for urging customers to "stow away, don't throw them away...
...when danger is imminent and ominous that nations have buckled down to the task at hand. In The Netherlands, where three-fifths of the population lives on land reclaimed from the sea by an intricate network of dikes, dams and canals, the Dutch are now spending $830 million to throw up steel levees and floodgates to keep the sea from counterattacking. In Israel, where water scarcity is as old as the land, planning and technology have been equally dramatic...
Though he called all the plays on his own, without messages from the bench, Shevlin said the thought of pass-bating Coach John Yovicain watching from the sidelines helped dampen the inclination to throw...
...Women throw books of poetry to him and propose marriage in dozens of letters each week. Fan clubs pay tribute to him throughout Western Europe. He has starred in two hit movies, one of them about himself, and earned more money ($10 million) than it cost to build the Spanish Armada. In July, he became the fourth matador in this century to be allowed to spare the life of his bull. In August, he became the first in history to fight 31 corridas in one month. And, barring illness or injury, by this time next month the mop-haired...
...Hungary's Gyula Zsivotsky: a new world hammer-throw record, hurling the 16-lb. weight 241 ft. 11 in. to top Harold Connally's three-month-old mark by more than 8 ft.; at a meet in Debrecen, Hungary. Unprepared for such a contingency, meet officials spent a frantic hour searching for a 100-meter measuring tape- required for gauging record throws. They finally borrowed one from the local water board...