Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of Eleanor and Marlon Green [May 3], who suffered with them-and with less patience than they have-I appreciate the light you have thrown on the nasty discrimination that keeps an expert pilot from his work. How can we talk of equality of opportunity in a country where a man has to wait six years, employ lawyers, and appeal to the federal courts to convince employers (supposedly eagerly seeking qualified pilots) that he is more competent than other job applicants? (THE REV.) JOSEPH H. FIGHTER, S.J. Loyola University New Orleans
...nation. His Derby loss was the first of his career, and it might have been attributable to a surprisingly poor ride by Willie Shoemaker. Three times during the race "Shoe" got Candy Spots into a tight squeeze where he had to be checked, and this might have thrown the California colt off enough to cost him the victory...
...part, the Communist showing was due to Red defections from Pietro Nenni's sharply divided Socialists, the left-wing crowd that had thrown its lot with Fanfani. And in part it was due to Pope John XXIII, who had given a modicum of approval to the far left with his Pacem in Terris encyclical, and with his warm welcome to the Vatican last March for Nikita Khrushchev's visiting son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei...
...film makers have tied some fancy knots in the silver-cord theme of Inge's original play, and some lines have been thrown in that are sure to make Inge cringe. Says Woodward to Trevor: "I shouldn't tell you this; it might shock you." Says Trevor to Woodward: "Don't forget, I'm a registered nurse." A Loss of Roses bumped through 25 performances on Broadway; as The Stripper, it doesn't come...
...charges against the moral conduct of the first student, who was then fairly stiffly punished. The senior class gathered under Rebellion Elm to protest the charges and the punishment and threatened the informer with bodily harm. Four of them were suspended, and rioting raged for several days. Cannonballs were thrown from windows of dormitories, and bonfires spread through the Yard. It was a much cruder protest than the earlier ones had been but the penalties were much the same--37 seniors were dismissed from College and denied the degrees they would have received in a very short while...