Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Began. The first putative name broken out of the FBI was that of Eric Starve Gait. This, it soon became clear, was a pseudonym built up to throw pursuers off the trail. Fingerprints found on the rifle left in the street when the killer fled belong to James Earl Ray, an escaped Missouri convict who has spent prison time for four major crimes, including armed robbery, burglary, forgery of U.S. money orders and car theft. The prints were painstakingly checked against the FBI's bank of 53,000 sets of records on wanted men; it took 13 days...
...thing is that those Dudley people just don't give a damn. They go right out onto that tiny Lehman Hall stage and play The Merchant of Venice. They seize the work by the lapels, shake it for nearly all they can hope to get out of it and throw what they find at the audience. If you are there to catch what they have, you'll be a pretty happy person...
...batters before he found anything resembling control. With one run in and the bases still loaded, the tall Kentuckian finally looked as if he had found some of his stuff. He got, M.I.T.'s Jim Cole to hit an easy double-play grounder. Second baseman Phil Smith took the throw from short-stop Jeff Grate for the first out, but threw the ball far over first baseman Joe Ignaclo's head. Two runs scored on the error and the M.I.T. lead was to prove insurmountable...
Harvard filled the air with record throws. In the javelin sophomore Frank Champi set a new university record with a toss of 224'1", thirteen feet beyond his previous best. Shot-putter Dick Benka set a meet record with a toss of 56 feet and Ron Wilson broke the stadium record with a 167 foot discus throw. Charley Ajootian set a personal record with a 187 foot hammer toss...
Outfielder Jim Lee of Holy Cross attempted to run over Turco in the sixth inning after a throw from the outfield had beaten him to the plate by five feet...