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Word: thrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

This will probably add up to an attack which will rely heavily on passing (Fitkin to Rowe or Beeman) with off-tackly work by fullback Carey thrown in for good measure...

Author: By Bayard Hoofer, | Title: Dartmouth May Make Traditional Trouble | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

When President Truman signed the present law in 1948, he specifically condemned its inadequacy and obvious bias, and urged Congress to revise it at the first opportunity. A bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats has just thrown one opportunity down the drain. Perhaps in January, with a larger number of Senators interested enough to attend, this mistake can be rectified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back to McCarran | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...team's rushing percentage (it has moved the ball 315 yards in 168 attempts) is l.9 yards but the passing average (34 completions out of 80 passes thrown) brings the Crimson's offensive mark up to 3.6 yards a down. Individual Player Statistics Pts Rushing Allempls Yds. Avg. Allempls Passing Comp. Intdrcepted Yds. Td. Attempls Total Offense Yds. Aug. Athans, wb 0 7 8 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 8 1.1 Bottenfield, fb. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Healey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noonan, Henry, Shafer Pace Eleven on Offense | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

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