Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some future Olympics, other athletes would swim faster, jump higher, throw farther; and some day it might not matter any longer that the U.S. had beaten Russia in their private battle for supremacy in the Games (see box). But the memories would stay -of Bob Schul sprinting across the finish line in the 5,000-meter run, the first American ever to win the race, soaked with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into...
...Swiss overly concerned with dust but not too quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...
...poor Mickey Mantle-four times he threw wildly to the infield. Twice in one game he was caught off base. "The dirtiest trick I've ever seen in baseball," Mickey groused, after Cardinal Shortstop Dick Groat lulled him off second with a joke, then zipped around, took a throw and tagged him out. Naughty, indeed, but it saved a run-and the Cardinals in the fourth game. Trailing 3-0 at the time, the Cards quickly added injury to insult on Ken Boyer's grand-slam homer, won 4-3, and evened the Series at two games apiece...
...happen one at a time," said Editor Baggs. "We had special problems down here. We had a local boy over at the Olympics, [U.S. Sprinter] Bob Hayes, and we also had Hurricane Isbell on our hands. All you can do when it comes at you from all sides is throw it at the reader. As for Khrushchev-we just put all the rumors together to see if they spelled mother." The News approached the spelling job with utmost care. Its first headline...
...heaven above. By your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve. But as you grow restive, You shall throw off his yoke from your neck...