Word: throws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throw in the sponge on Laetrile? The FDA could run a few tests on the alleged wonder drug to assure itself of its basic innocuousness, slap a Surgeon General-type warning on it ("The Government has determined that Laetrile, alias vitamin B17, can do nothing for your health"), and let it loose in the marketplace, along with such other pharmaceutical miracles as cold tablets, skin creams and vaginal deodorants. Under the Government's nodding supervision, the purity of the product might then be assured, the flourishing black market in Laetrile-which has netted some of its pushers millions...
Combined with the activities of "booster groups" such as the Friends of Harvard Football, which search for students and frequently sponsor dinners and outings for prospective Harvard athletes in a given area, the alumni network provides what Harvard coaches agree is an essential tool for digging up needed talent. Throw in the efforts of recruiting "superstars" such as F. Philip Locke '33, who scours California for the likes of All-American Pat McInally '75, and the Harvard athletic program is clearly at no loss for talent scouts...
...Peking. Fairbank decided that it was worth spending half of his Rhodes scholarship to take a look. Wilma C. Fairbank, then his wife-to-be, recalls that one of his classmates said at the time, "What a terrible loss it is that such a bright fellow as John should throw himself away on such a remote field as Chinese history...
Splendid idiosyncratic essays abound here. Angell's profile of Steve Blass, the Pirate pitcher, who, a year after winning the seventh game of the World Series, mysteriously lost the ability to throw strikes, is classic. There is no definite explanation for Blass's sudden downfall--baseball people will tell you simply that he was not "in the groove," which explains nothing at all. Angell speculates that Blass was unnerved by the burden of team leadership that he felt pushed on him by the untimely death of Roberto Clemente...
Maurice Lucas sunk a free throw at 0:27 to give Portland a 109-105 lead, but McGinnis responded with a 25-foot onehander at the 18-second mark...