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Word: throws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Archie didn't intend to take a varsity sport in the winter, but he went down to the gym one day just to throw the ball through the ol' hoop a few times. The basketball coach saw him working out and begged him to come out for the team. Well, conscience is Archie's Archilles heel. He went out for the team, and played first-string forward...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Archie Roberts, Columbia To Challenge Crimson Today | 10/10/1964 | See Source »

...Some day," she promises, "I am going to lose my temper. I've never done it, and I'm determined. But if you are going to throw a temperament you have to be damn sure you're right. Otherwise it won't quite come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Once & Future Queen | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...rented Spanish villa with a warm-water pool in Coldwater Canyon. She doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never will be. So what I'd like would be really wacky comedy. I'd love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Once & Future Queen | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...would be more accurate to say that his thoughts are junky. On opening night Sam Levene tried valiantly to assist Analysis by sweeping some of the dialogue under his tongue. The trouble is that Bellow has given him more bad lines than he can possibly throw away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: From Womb to Gloom | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...second Exeter man, 6 ft., 2 in., 200-1b. Carter Lord, from Lakeland. Fla., is reputed to be one of the best of a strong end corps. He hit well on defense yesterday and should snag a lot of passes--if Lamar can find someone who can throw...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PROSPECTS | 10/7/1964 | See Source »

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