Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track and field performances. No one, said Hamilton out of confidence based on long experience, would ever run the 100-yd. dash in less than 9.2 sec. or the mile in less than 3 min. 57.8 sec. No one would ever put the shot more than 62 ft., throw the discus more than 200 ft., do better than 7 ft. 1 in. in the high jump, 27 ft. in the long jump, or 16 ft. in the pole vault...
...garbage explosion already dwarfs population growth. While the number of people in the U.S. has gone up 30% since 1950, solid waste-largely as a result of the ever-increasing use of throw-away packages and containers-has gone up a full 60%, to 160 million tons a year, enough to fill 2,000 giant cargo ships. As the pile grows, traditional methods of disposal are proving increasingly inadequate or unacceptable...
...coming back for their medic training, are all potheads because in Vietnam the stuff grows wild and free and you can sit around your camp fire in the Mekong Delta and they say you can just reach out and put up a handful of hemp leaves and throw them on the fire. They also tell me there's a terrific black market on narcotics for the troops in Vietnam...
Harvard's Ron Wilson had the best day among the weightmen. His toss of 187 ft. 6 in in the hammer was his season's best but fell 6 ft. off Cadet John Graham's meet-record throw of 193 ft. The Idaho husky also scored the Crimson's only first in the weights, winning the discus with a chuck...
...authorities on wall aphorisms is Robert Beckwith, a Columbia University student who conducts a monthly radio show dedicated to the art. His authentic collection includes: "Lock up McNamara and throw away the Ky," "Jean-Paul Sartre saves Green Stamps," and "The meek shall inherit the earth-they are too weak to refuse...