Word: throws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wondering why anyone would bother to go to one of these get-togethers, you need to know a little more about the town meeting tradition. Mix Yankee stubborness and seriousness with a large measure of small town closeness, throw in the factional rivalries that spring up in every community and you often have an evening as worthwhile for a drama student as for a Government major. Attempts to widen roads can turn into philosophical debates over the rights of homeowners, and the rapidly mounting costs of education have triggered many a nostalgic reminiscence of the "old days...
Maybe I should develop some of these points more fully. Like the Firebird. Not only is it a cool car, but just check out the things he does with it. He's probably the best driver on television, and definitely the coolest. Every time I try to throw my Gremlin into a spin instead of doing a three-point turn it stalls. Rockford wouldn't be caught dead in a Gremlin...
...television industry, it was Black Sunday, the costliest night in TV history. In their desperation to knock out one another during the February sweeps-those weeks when Nielsen and Arbitron take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind; NBC followed with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; ABC, hoping to profit from the Presley boom, countered with its own special, Elvis! For millions of TV viewers, who had spent most of the season slogging...
Although Davis fouled out at 5:48, leaving the game after scoring 26 points and hauling down 10 rebounds, the damage was already done. The Harvard cagers missed one-and-one opportunities from the free throw line on their next two possessions, and even eight points by Crimson co-captain Bob Hooft, in the last five minutes could not avert a disappointing 86-78 loss...
Fine, Donald Fleming, and Hooft all notched baskets in the last minute, but Cornell kept adding points at the free throw line to prevent Harvard from coming any closer than the eight-point margin that separated the teams at the buzzer...