Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operation Breadbasket. Young is convinced that nothing will end the tragedy more effectively than jobs, jobs and more jobs. So are most other Negro leaders. "Teenagers with jobs," says Randolph, "don't throw Molotov cocktails through store windows." Wilkins is trying to get more construction jobs for Negroes with "a massive assault on discriminatory hiring practices," has urged some 1,500 N.A.A.C.P. branches to picket federal and state building projects worth $76.5 billion unless more openings are made available...
...bull, he got his first mount in 1963, when he was 16-and at 18 he set a six-month track record with 177 victories. The money was paltry, but better than getting pelted by the fans. "In Panama," he says, "you don't ride good, they throw things...
...have gone there to do some children's portraits. He drove into the action in his station wagon and, using the steering wheel as an easel, started sketching, with TIME'S cover in mind. He recalls: "Whenever I would get out of the car, they would throw bricks at me. I was such a target with that sketchbook! The brick or stone would hit that pastel and it would fly all over. I had gone through all of the TIME photos of Watts when I did the cover on Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles. Yet I wasn...
...lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers for the crisis of the cities...
...Seattle with an overhand fastball, a nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch low and away. At least nobody ever hit him in a spot like that. Lemon taught him how to throw a sidearm fastball, a slider and a change of pace, and he also taught McGlothlin something about major-league hitters: "They're human, like everybody else...