Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fentress: Even so, Nixon has mellowed a great deal. I think the defeats of 1960 and 1962 contributed to that. He is a bigger man than he was in 1960. The old Nixon was a political alley fighter who would throw the word treason around rather freely. He doesn't do that now, but he might be capable of it again if it seemed necessary...
...seemed ready to take the long walk to the showers when he got an unexpected reprieve from the Cards' Lou Brock, justly famed as the National League's most expert baserunner. Heading for home with a sure run, Brock unaccountably failed to slide under the high, late throw. He came in standing up, crashed into Catcher Bill Freehan and was tagged easily. The rally that might have ended the Series was snuffed out. Two innings later, Detroit scored three runs, and Lolich, growing stronger with each pitch, blanked the Cards the rest...
...committing in our names, the response of faculty members in the profession most intimately tied to the war is revealing indeed. They have, of course, expressed their vague, somewhat inarticulate discontent with what is going on "over there." Yet, there is an unmistakable hint of Business As Usual. Throw the CIA out of Harvard? Don't be immature or rash--let's work this out rationally; after all, we want results...
...Mann Act charge, he jumps bail and flees to Europe. A hounded exile, he drifts from country to country, reaching a kind of symbolic degradation when he shuffles through the role of Uncle Tom in a Budapest cafe and is booed. Still, he rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than honest emotional power...
Columbia has no defense. So Marty Domres can throw all he wants, but Harvard's versatile offense will carry the day. It's not even worth picking a score...