Word: hurleds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy and Davidson. The ship exerts a magnetism that is as much physical as historical. Up close, she's an awesome sight. Her three sets of 16-in. guns, tooled more than four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall...
Asked to explain what could motivate students to hurl such a charge against the CRR, Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69 says "bad memory...
...black working-class community of Belmont Heights, Gooden explains, "all the adults were your parents," though he was not shortchanged in any respect. Ella Mae and Dan Gooden were as solid as the rocks that--their son acknowledges both uneasily and proudly--he used to hurl at passing cars with resounding accuracy. "I knocked out a lot of windows, got a lot of whippings," Dwight says. "And at night I'd lie in bed throwing a tennis ball up in the air and catching it, throwing it up in the air and catching it, throwing...
...Soviets also implicitly offered concessions involving the power of rockets used to launch warheads. In the argot of nuclear weapons, this power is known as throw weight, the ability to hurl a payload. The Soviets now have about 5.7 million kilograms of ballistic-missile throw weight, while the U.S. has a mere 2 million kilograms. The Soviet proposal offered last week would reduce the Kremlin's throw weight to no more than 3 million kilograms, according to an analysis for TIME by Ted Warner, an arms-control expert at the Rand Corp...
...time it seems the city has gone crazy: mobs of mothers flail at policemen, neighbors battle neighbors, young vandals hurl epithets and rocks and sometimes fire bombs. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who issues the order to integrate, is harassed by death threats. Mayor Kevin White watches his political standing disintegrate on the eve of his intended run for the presidency. Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship sees his employees threatened, even shot at, as the paper goes after the story. Louise Day Hicks, the city council member who became the earth mother of the antibusing forces, stands by helplessly...