Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Gautama Buddha's body was cremated, tradition has it, some parts of it failed to burn. Joan of Arc's heart is said to have survived her burning at the stake and been thrown into the Seine. When Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off Italy in 1822, three literary friends -Lord Byron, Edward John Trelawny and Leigh Hunt-cremated the corpse on a pyre of driftwood. The job almost done, Trelawny suddenly thrust in his arm and snatched out the heart, which, although fiery hot, was strangely unconsumed. In Oscar Wilde's fairy tale, The Happy Prince...
...miles southeast of Prestwick, was built before the 14th century, remodeled into a superb example of an 18th century baronial mansion. Set on a wooded hillside, its 160-acre site affords excellent facilities for shooting and salmon fishing. Guests dine on the very spot where manacled prisoners were once thrown to rot while the wicked barons feasted in an upstairs hall (now the ballroom). Its 24 rooms rent for a minimum of $4.50 a night...
...delighted to read [June 7] about the latest innovation in baby feeders. About two years ago I, too, thought I'd found the best product available-no measuring, no mixing, no rewarming, re-washing or sterilizing. The drawback was that I couldn't be thrown away...
...Alabama fell too: enrolled at the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama were two Negroes, Vivian Malone and James Hood, both 20. The only opposition was an empty gesture of defiance by Governor George C. Wallace. On the campus, the Negroes encountered no hostile mobs, no shouting, no thrown stones. Instead, they met with smiles and friendly greetings from white students. The Negroes merged into the life of the campus so uneventfully that it almost seemed as if the color of their skins made no difference...
...version of it in the Senate in 1956. One flaw is that in a close election, such as Lincoln's in 1860 or Kennedy's in 1960, splinter parties could prevent any candidate from getting a majority of the electoral votes, and the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives. To prevent that, Lodge urged inclusion of a clause making 40% of the total electoral votes sufficient to elect a President...