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Word: throws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by James Joyce has been treated by Viking and the academic Joyce industry as if it were a combination of a new Dead Sea Scroll, the Rosetta stone, and a papyrus by Parmenides the Eleatic. All for ten bucks a throw -a throw being exactly 16 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...briefly several times late in the half, the best spurt coming with about eight minutes left. Down 54-44, the Crimson got hoops from Jerry O'Neil and Gallagher. An Indian basket intervened but rarely-used backcourt man Eric Gustafson threw in a 22-foot set. Gallagher one free throw and Bobby Johnson two, bringing Harvard within four...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Big Green Drops Harvard In Agonizing 65-60 Loss | 1/17/1968 | See Source »

...Northrup banked a tricky left-handed layup, got fouled and converted the free throw, breaking the Crimson back. The Red and Blue is now 5-7, Harvard is 5-6, and Princeton is 11-3, 3-0 in the League...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Tigers, Quakers Trounce Fumbling Crimson Quintet | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

...playing opposing pass receivers extremely tight to cut off the short pass, assuming that there won't be a long one. It is a tactic that could backfire against Oakland, considering the caliber of the Packers' offensive blockers. If Quarterback Starr gets the protection he needs to throw the bomb to such adept maneuverers as Split End Boyd Dowler and Flanker Carroll Dale, Jimmy the Greek could turn out to be a conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: And Now the Super Bowl | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...game is devoid of the breaks and flukes that make sports interesting. I think the score will be Green Bay 20, Oakland 10. But throw in a key interception by Grambling's Willie Brown and Ike Lassiter's recovery of a Mercein fumble and the final comes out, Oakland Raiders 23, The Pack...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

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