Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eagerness. In the tumble of vague plans and great expectations that had been thrown into the summit hopper, there was one clear and urgent need-the U.S. need for IRBM bases in Europe to counter Russia's missile potential, its threat to the U.S. and to U.S. retaliatory power. But many of the NATO allies were far from eager to accept the U.S. offer of missiles for bases. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, in a quick swing through Europe's capitals, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of preconference meetings in Paris, had quickly learned...
...Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...
Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...
After water and carbon dioxide from automatic extinguishers had put out the fire, the worn-out and heartsick missilemen found the sole survivor: the U.S.'s tiny satellite, intact, thrown out of the nose section of the rocket, broadcasting the signals that were meant to be sent down from space. The U.S. Sputnik sending from the ground was right on frequency: 108 megacycles...
...recent weeks Cairo has been alive with indignation over shipments of Russian wheat so rotten that it turned the bread green, of Communist Chinese tea so full of impurities that it had to be thrown away. The flood of Russian literature that pours into Egypt these days has left the average Egyptian totally unmoved; most of it is sold by weight for wrapping papers. Cairo housewives particularly like a magazine called Russia Today for wrapping bananas. "It doesn't tear so easily," said one. Nearly every machine in Egypt is Western-made, and for lack of spare parts...