Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...
...state's 63 convention votes. After Kennedy's death, Indiana party leaders declared that the slate would go uncommitted to Chicago, but in fact Governor Roger Branigin, who ran as a favorite son in the primary against Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, will almost surely throw most of the votes to Humphrey on the first ballot...
...most illustrious member, Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, 61. It seems likely that Mitterrand's party and the Communists will each enter a full slate of competing first-round candidates in France's 487 electoral districts. But they are likely to combine forces and throw their votes in the final round to the strongest candidate from either party in each district, the other candidate withdrawing-a maneuver that the leftists and Communists used with great effectiveness in the 1967 national elections...
Harvard's pitching staff might not have held out under this pressure, but in two games it was one of the most impressive at the tournament. Ray Peters, Bob Dorwart and Bob Lincoln gave up only one walk between them in 20-innings, and didnt's throw a wild pitch. They set down opposing batters easily, being touched for just four runs in the two games...
...this movie has a definite Grand Guignol quality. People don't just fall down and lie there with a stain on the uniform and maybe a twitch or two. They writhe and roll, gurgling and spouting the red stuff in enough quantities to make even a paratrooper throw up-which John does with emetic realism. There is also a double helping of portentous stream of consciousness on the sound track, plus some heavy-handed message mongering that is both otiose and silly. "Just you and me," observes one of the characters, lying near death in an inferno of exploding...