Word: hurl
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...situation really gets ugly. Here come several hundred other Lan celotians marching behind loudspeaker trucks. In their own tongue-a kind of pidgin Spanish-they shout anti-American slogans. They hurl fistfuls of sand in the Marines' faces, threaten them, push them and form human barricades. They are then joined in their hostility by the natives who originally had welcomed the Marines. "Form wedges! Form wedges, goddammit!" cries a harassed Marine sergeant. Finally, the Marines disperse the mob and start pushing inland...
...bedeviling problem facing space scientists is the difficulty of building the enormous chemical rocket engines needed to propel the ever growing payloads the U.S. wants to hurl deep into space. Last week the problem came closer to solution, not with the development of a big new chemical rocket but with the Air Force announcement that the U.S. had for the first time successfully tested an ion rocket engine in space...
...three weeks of making his way through Harlem-talking to businessmen, politicians, police, civil rights leaders and people, as well as witnessing the riots-Reporter Thimmesch felt that no one bothered him very much, except to hurl a few jeers of "whitey" at him. Ironically, it was Washington Correspondent Wallace H. Terry II, come home to Harlem to spend four weeks working on the story, who during one riot was knocked down and out by a brick hurled from a rooftop...
...somehow never puts them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...
Greece and Turkey came to hurl acrimonious charges and countercharges about the Cyprus conflict, finally agreed to a mild compromise by which NATO's outgoing Secretary-General Dirk Stikker was asked to lend a hand in ending the dispute...