Word: throws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speeches in 22 states. In Chicago, Shuman stays at the Sherman Hotel, where he gets a special rate and a different room each week. After 20 years, Shuman and the Sherman's bellboys have become special friends, though Shuman is a notoriously parsimonious tipper. "I don't throw it around," he says...
Youth: Well then, here, you throw...
...stepping out of the batter's box. Groused Aaron: "He didn't say anything the time before, when I did the same thing and popped up." Some pitchers think that Aaron toys with them, making himself look bad on certain pitches so they will throw the same pitches again. But Hank himself insists that there is no subterfuge behind his hitting. "I've got a bat, and all the pitcher's got is a ball," he says. "That gives me a natural edge...
...tournament since 1962. A birdie for Nicklaus and a bogie for Marr would mean a playoff. Teeing off for the 470 yd. par-four, Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter. But after all those years, Marr was not about to throw it away. With a beautiful recovery and approach, he salvaged his par, and Jack missed his birdie. That did it. The new P.G.A. champion, $25,-000 richer, was Dave Marr. Nicklaus settled for a $12,500 split of second and third money with Casper-not a bad week...
...high he had to set down quick or it would have cut his ears off. I told him that down in Texas I could get all I could eat for 250, and as long as the court knows herself I'd eat somewhere else. I thought they would throw me out, but I reached for my old standby and they didn't dare." There were perils as well as pleasures. Once, while riding alone through Arizona's Skeleton Canyon, McCauley ran into a passel of Apaches. "They fired and my horse fell. I fired twice...