Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany, the nagging question still remained. "I think they feel in Moscow the same way we do," said one Air Force officer. "If they could have reached out and put their hands over that damn fool's gun, they would have. And if we could have thrown a rope up in the air and pulled those poor guys back, we would have...
...armory and locked their white officers and noncoms in the officers' mess. Their triumph was short-lived. In roared British Royal Horse Artillery in Ferret armored cars, and in a brief gun battle the rising was quelled, leaving one mutineer dead and one wounded. The rest were quickly thrown behind barbed wire...
...broadcasting chores, warning civilians to lay down their guns. "Otherwise," he bellowed in his own arresting argot, "you will see how we hang people and burn them like chickens. Others will be executed by being cut into pieces that will be spread on the streets. Still others will be thrown into the sea, while others will be tied to trees and shot by novice marksmen. Anyone who tries to be a hypocrite will be punished by 50 years in jail...
...tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget for a moment old sets of mind and values. The world of Endgame may not be your world or mine--it shouldn't be anyone's world--but it serves its purpose...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 23--President Sukarno of Indonesia has thrown a monkey wrench into mediation machinery built up by U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy for a settlement of the Malaysian crisis...