Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while the reviewers raved at the performance, some of the more sedate Boston elements thought morals had been thrown to the winds. One local paper carried the following letter...
...call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament, and gigging...
...months ago, Mollet might have sympathized with the words written by the left-wing editor Claude Bourdet in his weekly L'Observateur: "One hundred thousand young Frenchmen are threatened with being thrown into the 'dirty war' of Algeria, with losing the best years of their lives, perhaps with being wounded, indeed killed, for a cause few among them approve." But now, in a panicky gesture that reflects the government's skittishness, Editor Bourdet was unceremoniously arrested by Mollet's government, accused of spreading "demoralization...
Additional light was thrown last night on the plannings and discussions concerning the problem of a Harvard theatre. Harry Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature, revealed that a Faculty Committee on Theatre, including Levin, Archibald MacLeish, Jose L. Sert, dean of the Faculty of Design, and Dean Bundy, has considered this problem for quite some time...
...Road. In Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Pauline Ellison crashed into a truck while driving down an icy highway, was thrown from her car, skidded 200 feet on her briefcase, was uninjured...