Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly...
...beer can rattles down the walk and a window is thrown open in the upper courtyard...
...large firecracker or small bomb was thrown into "Elsie's" delicatessen last night at about 9:30 p.m., resulting in an explosion which injured two customers...
...standard of living. But just as services-TV repairing, dry cleaning, and such-have got more expensive, a lot of them got steadily worse. Goods, too, have declined in quality. Even such a basic item as the modern house is not what it should be; it's often thrown together like a woodshed...
Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab...