Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Massachusetts--UMass--had long since thrown off the the "agricultural school" odium before Mather moved into the presidency in 1954. But primarily through Mather's efforts the Amherst school is raising itself from the lower ranks of educational society into the upper reaches--despite the interference of the state legislature. The short-sighted efforts of a few senators on Beacon Hill brought about the president's resignation early last month, ignited public controversy, and demonstrated the tremendous changes in the seam-splitting state university...
...Johnson, whose chief political appeal was a habit of success, suddenly lost his rabbit's foot. His own Preparedness Subcommittee failed to fulfill its purpose of discovering dangerous flaws in Administration defense policy. His dramatic proposal for a Congress-authorized commission to study unemployment-a tinhorn political promise thrown the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s conference on unemployment in Washington last April -gathered dust in a House pigeonhole as the economy boomed to new heights. His civil rights bill got nowhere...
...explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows in a nearby Carmelite monastery where 14 nuns were asleep...
...Lauderdale Sr., 48, twice-defeated candidate for the City Manager Board and a leader of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council; Truck Driver J. D. Sims, 35, who admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed three sticks of dynamite under Fire Chief Nalley's car and thrown ten sticks into the school board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel G. Beavers, 49, a carpenter at the state mental hospital; and Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced...
This elaborate counterpoint confused even Confidante Maxwell, tireless companion of the rich, who had just thrown her annual party at Venice's Danieli. After consulting her friend "Ari," she supplied a breathless answer to the question of whether Callas and Onassis would marry: "I guess...