Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week came news that Kenyatta was expecting a shipment of Russian arms, but before anyone could jump to the conclusion that the former Mau Mau chieftain had thrown his lot in with the Communists, Security Minister Mungai rushed out a statement reassuring everyone that there was nothing pernicious about the deal. "Kenya will continue to buy arms and ammunition from West or East as long as they are suitable and carry the right price," he said...
...University of Alberta has 9,400 students in tall buildings on its bulldozer-torn Edmonton campus and is building another campus in Calgary with an extra $2,000,000 thrown in for the nearby Banff School of Fine Arts. The University of British Columbia, which with 15,500 students in Vancouver is the biggest and the best in the West, has given birth to the newly independent University of Victoria in the province's garden-filled capital. In Burnaby, near Vancouver, the innovating Simon Fraser University will open next fall on a $15 million, 1,168-acre campus-just...
...year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy bears to a training...
...final seconds of the quarter, Dick Ames, in perhaps the most play of the game, intercepted pass thrown by the Penn goalie, quickly to the unguarded goal bringing the score...
This propagandistic effort destroys the coherence of Duke's personal story. There are too many characters thrown in. Sordid incidents are strung together in an impressionistic way that works in photographic sequences, but diffuses the story. No doubt violence does rear up without warning in real Harlem life, but these scuffles come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance. The audience I sat with laughed lightheartedly when a member of the gang pulled a knife on his father, when Duke stole a purse, and when a rival whom Duke stabbed rolled over and said "Thank...