Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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J.F.K. could have brought Jackie, Caroline, Macaroni and Bobby with him into Michigan, thrown in the Hollywood "rat pack" as an added bonus, and still not have succeeded in swinging any significant number of Democratic, let alone Republican, votes back to Governor Swainson...
...there. During World War II and the Korean war, Michigan's auto plants received some 10% of all defense dollars. But the state has not kept pace with the demands of the electronics and missile age, now gets a meager 2.7% of defense spending. In addition, automation has thrown thousands of men out of work. Early in 1961, during a slump in auto orders, the unemployment rate in Michigan reached a shocking...
...laborers are working round the clock. The High Dam is not supposed to be finished till 1968, and the entire project till 1970, but there is a tight schedule for the completion of successive stages, and if any one were to be delayed, the whole plan would be thrown out of kilter...
...left-of-center Republican-Democratic Union. Some are far-right opportunists who hate Betancourt for his insistent social and economic reforms. Their campaign is disjointed: occasional attacks on isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk of the country's military has supported Betancourt in the interests of stability-and because they prefer his moderate reform to the violent upheaval a homegrown Castro would provoke. But as the tension continues, rumors of an impending coup...
...three plays later the ball was laid on the Harvard 18. Switching to orthodox, short run plays, McCarthy then had his fellow backs assault the interior line until he had achieved the one yard line. Harvard's forward wall found it impossible to resist the superior weight that was thrown against them...