Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business Student James Sager recalls that Lyndon "could put a column of ten figures on the board and by the time he got to the bottom he'd have added them all up in his head." He fascinated his speech classes with his personal, pointed anecdotes, loved to throw out a single word and demand that his students ad-lib a speech about it. Once the word "string" stumped the class-but Lyndon promptly talked 15 minutes on the topic. Then, as now, Johnson hated to lose. His Sam Houston debate team came within one point of winning...
John Bakkensen got the Crimson's other individuals win with his first place in the discus. His winning throw of 177 ft., 8 in was a scant 3 1/4 in. off the Heptagonal record...
...film is studded with real moments. Scenarios are deceitful, improvization honest. Concomitantly, improvization--the actors go through a scene line for line, then throw away their scripts and play the situation out of their heads--is fumbly, halting, erratic. Nobody Waved Goodbye has less gloss than Jake Wirth's floor. It's a sort of artistic Candid Camera, a really terrific home movie...
Britain has warned that it would regard U.D.I, as "rebellion," break relations with the outlaw regime and impose an economic boycott, which would throw thousands of whites out of work and send the economy into a tailspin. Opposition Leader David Butler, 37, a wealthy tobacco farmer, was well aware of the consequences. "The Rhodesian way of life would be ruined by U.D.I.," he warned. "It is a way of life that depends on economic prosperity...
Harvard's ninth run came in the seventh on a double steal. Miller doubled, tagged up and went to third on McLandish's fly to center. Dockery walked, and Miller scored when Tuft's catcher tried (unsuccessfully) to throw Dockery out stealing second...