Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court by promising government compliance with its rulings, Premier Segni's Cabinet would stand condemned in the public mind for defiance of constitutional processes. As gracefully as possible, the Premier resigned himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown out by the court. On Segni's promise, the revered Chief Justice fired off a letter to President Giovanni Gronchi withdrawing his resignation. "It is my duty," De Nicola wrote blandly, "to bow to your will with profound devotion...
After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes...
Despite-or because of-the ordeal, the reporters and staff have enjoyed a freewheeling camaraderie. Each group has thrown a party for the other. At one of them, tireless Candidate Kefauver himself gallantly delivered a reporter's written spoof of his speechifying cliches and halting style. Reported the New York Daily News's Gwen Gibson: "While some don't like him as a politician, reporters with him have learned to like the stumbling, fumbling Tennessee Senator as a person...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, expressed one typical fear when he said, "Anything that can be thrown the length of a corridor, is. They are ideal for field hockey and football...
Right Relationship. His campaign was immensely aided by the fact that the city was desegregating generally. Branch libraries, the General Hospital, city-owned parks and swimming pools were being thrown open to Negroes. "The school-community relationship has been right," he says. "A lot of people still prefer segregation. But the Supreme Court has ruled, and the people realize that the law has to be lived up to." The best measure of Louisville's success is the fact that 75% of the city's 44,697 schoolchildren were integrated last week (with the remainder segregated only by residential...