Word: lob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with traditional dishes-boiled carp for Christmas Eve, roast goose for Christmas Day. the cheery bunte Teller, plates piled high with fruit and marzipan, nuts and pastry. But West Berlin's authorities have banned the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks for fear some young people would lob the German equivalent of cherry bombs across the Wall into East Berlin and precipitate trouble. The Berlin mood last week was accurately reflected by a sardonic "Carol for Our Time" written by members of the press corps...
...story and the dialogue, though mildly abridged, are purely Shakespeare's. Lob and lovers, oafs and ouphes by peradventure meet and mischief in the wold, and afterward convene at court to celebrate the prince's nuptials with "The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby," performed by a cast of coxcomical clods...
...proceeded to lob a couple of shells into the Democratic camp. Most of them were intended for Nominee Kennedy: "Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of campaign oratory. We do not want leadership that sees only dark continents of despair in American life. We do not want leadership that recklessly exhausts the rightful heritage of our grandchildren. We are against leadership that seeks to center all government in Washington...