Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have spent a major portion of my life in the South, and I find that nine times out of ten, if a Negro commits a crime against another Negro he gets the lightest sentence possible. However, it he commits a crime against a white person he gets the book thrown at him. Why should the offender not be punished as severely for wronging one of his brothers as he is for injury to a member of a different race? Incidentally, I am a Negro...
Some 1,100 Senators, Congressmen, major and minor office holders and society folk trooped into the annual Mardi Gras thrown by the Louisiana State Society and captained by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long. They little expected the zip and zeal with which ebullient Russ Long enveloped them-particularly since he had invited them to bring their own liquor. But as they crowded around 96 tables under a ceiling billowing in balloons and confetti, the din raced into high decibels...
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
...work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full house (3,000) in 1½ minutes. Abroad the boom resounds even louder, with new structures rising and war-damaged buildings getting a thorough refurbishing...
...Manager John West. "The EBWR is on the line." The EBWR is the Atomic Energy Commission's Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and Congressman Carl T. Durham of North Carolina, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, had just thrown a switch that put the reactor into operation...