Word: throws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accept Insults-for a Price. To raise funds for a new science building, students at Maine's Unity College sold raffle tickets entitling them to throw pies at faculty members. Past President Allan Karstetter squashed a pie on his own face to collect a $200 stake put up for the occasion by one of his trustees...
Within the first five-and-a-half minutes, Harvard was hit with five travelling calls, not all of which it deserved. The squad turned the ball over 31 times in the game and sank only 17 of its 32 free throw attempts, including 3 for-14 in the first half, statistics that pretty much told the futile story...
McLaughlin would not make excuses for his team. "It was a very boring game," he said. "With 66 foul shots taken, it just turned into a free throw shooting contest. We lose our confidence and we start pressing. You can see that in our foul shooting...
Within days Chicagoans were fully briefed on every sickening detail of the brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for hundreds of friends. The papers ran blow-ups of a card identifying him as a Democratic precinct captain, accolades from fellow Jaycee club members and testimonials from friends who had benefited from Gacy's generosity...
...team, after being shut out in the gold medal department on Saturday night when the GDR copped four, bounced back with three last night to tie the Germans in total medals. Throw in a couple of surprising performances by some American club swimmers, and the end result was enough to make you understand the rabid nationalism of the cheering U.S. team...