Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of talking about this same subject day after day." Came the reply: "Oh no! I enjoy the give and take." Similarly, White House visitors find themselves kept after their allotted time by a President eager to talk about national problems and issues. In fact, the President has thrown his own hours-minutes-seconds schedule off the track to the point that Appointments Secretary Tom Stephens, as one White House staffer puts it, has "chewed his nails down to the knuckles...
...Attorney General William P. Rogers, referring to current congressional attempts to limit jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court (see The Congress): "There have been periods in our history when the 'kill the umpire' attitude made considerable headway, and many pop bottles have been thrown at our courts in the past. Fortunately, except in minor ways, the legislature has never taken these attacks seriously enough to alter the judicial system or retaliate against the judiciary...
...Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough and widow of the duke, who took control of the family fortunes "with her usual energy . . . self-satisfaction . . . omnicompetence and exasperation." Declaring "I mortally hate abuses or money foolishly thrown away," Sarah reigned over her descendants from the cradle to maturity for two full generations. Her letters bubble with energetic, dogmatic advice, orders and maxims, particularly when the young scions are studying on the Continent: "All the French women are cheats"; "It is better to go without . . . civilities than to pay too dear for them"; "Dancing gives men a good air and fencing should...
...Pennsylvania boat, which was slightly ahead of the Crimson for the first mile, finished the race with only seven oarsmen. Having less than half a mile to go, the number six man blacked out, caught a crab, and was thrown out of the boat...
...bombing, however, was apparently not part of an initiation prank of any sort. The initiation dinner was over by the time the bomb was thrown--approximately 9:30 p.m.--and the Club would probably not have been implicated in any way had not the two men run into the Building...