Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revealed similar designs in their own planning. Adenauer wants a similar program for Germany, and our own military prospects involve a possible two and one-half million manpower cut in the next four years. At the same time, this new emphasis on the deterrent power of nuclear weapons has thrown new considerations into schemes for H-bomb test control, disarmament, and defense research. And by this reorganization, Britain has admittedly placed her final trust in American manpower and nuclear weapons...
...repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment at committee hearings, e.g., when accused of conspiring with Teamster leaders to expand Portland vice operations. Bill Langley, already under a three-count indictment for malfeasance (e.g., corruption, incompetency, delinquency, etc.) in office, was reindicted on substantially the same charges with a fourth thrown in: receiving a bribe for allowing certain gambling operations...
...week was startled to find, under the unscientific heading, "Oops!", this homely advice: "Once a graft has been cut, it should be folded, wrapped in a damp gauze and put in a safe place until time for its application. Too often in its trip around the theatre it gets thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there are these wry definitions: "A graft is a piece of detached skin which...
...Quite rightly viewing mastery of the classical languages as essential, the department gives a series of half courses of supposedly ascending difficulty in various authors. Class discussion is quite broad, but examinations for the most part depend on the spewing out of prepared translations with an occasional cursory essay thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired in transmitting paideia, for after all, facility in the language is only valuable insofar that...
John DuMoulin had never thrown the weight prior to this season, yet he threw 54 feet, 2 inches to win the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet, much to the consternation of the favoured Yalies. He placed fourth behind Harpel in the Heptagonals...