Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' shock-haired Senator Jack Kennedy, 40, ambled up to Cinemactress Sophia Loren at a party thrown in her honor at the Italian embassy in Washington, shook hands gingerly, then skittered bashfully out of camera range. Asked Sophia, as she was crowded by less diffident legislators: "If that shy young man didn't want his picture taken with me, then why did he come here...
...latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts, and included some melodious arias which...
...always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight to the opinions of a small power as to a large. Said Churchill: "The shape of the U.N. has changed greatly from its original form and from the intention of its architects. The differences between the great powers have thrown responsibility increasingly on the Assembly. This has been vastly swollen by the addition of new nations. We wish all these new nations well. Indeed we created many of them and have done our best to ensure their integrity and prosperity. But it is anomalous that the vote or prejudice...
...years in jail himself for "Titoism," Marosan has now become "the visible one" of Russia's police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened? One week later [after the dismissal of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in Russia], these counter-revolutionary creatures recovered their confidence...
...After a raucous career dedicated to every known form of umpire baiting, Pittsburgh Pirate Manager Bobby Bragan is used to getting thrown out of ball games. Last week, for a change, he was thrown out of his job. "This time," said Bobby, "I broke the oldest rule in the book. When the team doesn't win, the manager has to go." The eighth-place Pirates will finish the season under Coach Danny Murtaugh...