Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places and into the beds of Iron Curtain delegates, or handed it out openly in the Prater. For their pains, at least nine-four of them girls-were roughed up by Communist guards, and an acid bomb was thrown into the publishing house printing the anti-Communist tracts...
...President's first six months, living costs jumped 22.2%. largest increase since 1955. Alessandri argues that the rise was premeditated; before launching his austerity program, he raised wages an average 32.5%, because "it was a social and political impossibility to permit rising living costs to be thrown totally on the shoulders of the working classes." From now on, says Alessandri, "the rhythm of inflation will slow down," as proof, points out that while January living costs jumped by a spectacular 4.7%, the June rise dropped...
Nixon's speech was a ringing retort to Soviet internal propaganda that the exhibition was not typical of U.S. life. Expecting that his speech' would reach millions of Russians (it was printed in both Pravda and Izvestia), Nixon had thrown away the State Department's proposed drafts and written his own text to take advantage of the richest propaganda opportunity the Soviet government had ever handed a U.S. official...
...hired troops dropped by the wayside, Goldfine tried to have the case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts...
...floor plan that he hoped would not only be practical but also allow for the whims of the owners. At the center is a circular living-dining area with fireplace. Two screened patios provide a breezeway; the corner bedrooms can be isolated by sliding glass walls and curtains or thrown open so that the house can be used to its perimeters as one free-flowing area for living and entertainment. Said the jury: "The most memorable image of all the houses we have seen...