Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Jupiter-C rocket thundered up from Cape Canaveral, Fla. this week in a perfect blastoff. Its mission: to hurl the U.S.'s 37-lb. space satellite, Explorer V, into orbit to measure lethal solar rays in outer space. Three and a half hours later, the Army glumly announced that the rocket's upper stages had somehow malfunctioned, that Explorer V was not in orbit. Army's space score card to date: three satellites in-orbit in five tries...
...damage -mainly broken windows-inflicted on the Soviet embassy in Bonn by German students protesting the execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter. Next day 2,000 Russian students and workers appeared before the West German embassy on Moscow's Bolshoi Gruzinskaya Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained façade of the embassy looked like a huge Jackson Pollock canvas, and more than 40 large windows lay in splinters. A similar mob had already bespattered the Danish...
When the weary Senate adjourned at week's end after three days of morning-till-night debate, the Republicans still had dozens of amendment grenades to hurl. The bill's prospects in the labor-weary House: doubtful...
...will be affixed to the College's newest attempt to relieve Freshman crowding and reduce the number of "forced commuters"-students accepted on condition that they live outside the College. The dormitory is the old Roosevelt Apartments, on the corner of Ware and Harvard Streets, adjoining fellow apartment-dormitories Hurl-but, Greenough, and 8 Prescott Street...
After the gang, whose leader had told the six to "get going" from the corner, began to hurl insults and beer bottles at them, five of the group hopped into the station wagon of George B. Cabot, Jr. '61. The sixth man fell prey to the thugs, who "Viciously beat him up," according to one of the Freshmen...