Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then you file slowly past a grave and throw a flower...
...himself." Students should have to learn only those things that really interest them. This would not be much of a hazard, Holt suggests, since for most people, "the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn." He thinks schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway." Holt would bring objects that interest kids into the classroom, take students out often to visit places that fascinate them. He would place older children in the same classes with younger ones...
...flower? A ring? A baby? The big summer mystery, the question that resounds from Boston to the Bayou is: What did Billie Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge...
...break" (up to six inches more than normal) that pitchers can achieve by wetting the ball. And for a while, most pitchers did seem to abide by the edict. But charity has its limits. Experts estimate that today, anywhere from 25% to 50% of all big-league pitchers throw the spitter, and that number includes many of the biggest names in the game...
Although spitball pitchers traditionally feign innocence, a few finally have begun to confess their guilt. "I've got moist hands," admits the Chicago White Sox's Bob Locker. And the Mets' Koonce asks: "Why shouldn't I say I throw one? A lot of guys know I do." Including, of course, the umpires, who rarely enforce Rule 8.02-because, they claim, it is unenforceable. "You may know a pitch was a spitter-but how do you prove it?" shrugs Cal Hubbard, the American League's supervisor of umpires, and one of his subordinates says...