Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit. They tried hard enough, pelting the motorcade with toilet paper, black streamers and bomb-shaped balloons, screaming "Go home, fascist pigs!" and trying to hurl themselves in front of the slow-moving limousines...
...spokesman for Adams -- where diners currently hurl their tray, silverware and napkins through a slot in one motion -- said that he thought Adams would eventually institute such a system...
...pace, and genuine, if strange, with from the English imports, as in the Beatles' movie, The Knack, or even Morgan. But producer-director Bryan Forbes is not a Richard Lester. There was no valid reason to use the Victorian setting except to provide some lush decorative backgrounds and to hurl extremely naive lampoons at a sensibility that has already been lampooned to death...
...weapons of parliamentary debate throughout the world vary considerably. Britons belabor one another with icy scorn, Greeks bang their desk tops, and Italians hurl inkwells. The U.S. House of Representatives has witnessed its share of fist fights and even, in the 19th century, quick-draw confrontations with cocked pistols on the floor. Black magic has its place in the legislative assemblies of modern Africa. Last week in South Korea, a new, but old, weapon was added to the armory...
Liquid hydrogen is the most effective rocket fuel ever developed. Some 40% more powerful than the kerosene fuel used in the Saturn booster, it will place the Apollo spacecraft in earth orbit, then be used again in the same flight to hurl the spaceship toward the moon. The trouble is, its virtues are not bought cheaply. Its extreme volatility and the - 423° F. temperature necessary to keep it in liquid form make it difficult to deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around...