Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Experiments. Such hero biographies, not unfamiliar in the U.S., help not at all in evaluating the flight of the Voskhod II. The TV pictures of Leonov outside the spaceship might have told much more, but they seemed to have been deliberately thrown out of sharpness, as well as cut. If Leonov experienced any kind of trouble the pictures did not show it, and official announcements about the flight were as formal as if carved in stone. "The ship's systems functioned normally," said a spokesman, "and the two cosmonauts completed all scientific experiments assigned to them...
...reliable guide to the adolescent mind, Psychiatrist Rubin established his credentials in Lisa and David, the authentic case history of two youthful mental patients that was even better as the movie David and Lisa. This time the guide has thrown away his map. In the book's two unconnected episodes, he conducts a ramble through the thoughts of two 16-year-old boys who have nothing in common but an unrequited appetite for human contact. "Platzo" is the fantasy name that Arthur Turbitzky, a nice, repressed Jewish boy, bestows on himself, explaining to the reader "Platz means place...
...Shared Dislike. At a banquet thrown by Chinese President Liu Shaochi, Ayub announced his intention to serve as "honest broker" between Washington and Peking in search of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam-despite the fact that neither China nor the U.S. has shown much interest yet in such a settlement. In private talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi,* Ayub sought to promote further trade and, more important, nail down an interest-free, $60 million loan, promised late last year to encourage Pakistani purchases of Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
...Elis were pressing tenaciously, but were unable to rattle Harvard's guards; with 57 seconds to go, Bobby Trupin fouled Sedlacek, who calmly swished a pair of three thrown. Eight seconds later Broadfoot sank two foul shots to make...
...held at all is largely due to the interest of French intellectuals who have touched off a European comic-strip boom. Today, Resnais told Andriola, early Charlie Chan strips fetch about $50 each, and original proofs are worth much more. Swallowing hard, Andriola replied that he had recently thrown away all his Charlie Chan proofs: "Resnais looked at me as though I had destroyed the Mona Lisa...