Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spell. Another story speculated for Observer readers on what it would be like if Algerian-style plastiqueurs were loose in New York: "On any given Saturday night in Times Square a car would pull up to the curb and spray machinegun bullets into the crowds ... A bomb would be thrown into New York's Carnegie Hall . . . Taxi drivers, bus drivers and mailmen would be killed in every section of the city. Crowded Harlem tenements would be blown up on an average of one a month...
...essentials must first be fitted with a coded description. Fed with the necessary information, and given instructions relating to the key of the composition, its length, and the number of instruments, Gamma Three then attacks the problem of composing exactly as it would an abstruse mathematical equation. Switches are thrown, relays click and the bulky machine punches out on tape a swift stream of chord combinations that meet the composer's requirements...
...some 5,500,000 transfusions of it. But after three weeks, as more and more of its red cells die, it may do more harm than good, and its use is prohibited. Time-expired blood can be salvaged up to the 26th day by removing the cells, which are thrown away, and saving the virtually imperishable plasma, used for burned patients and patients who are in shock...
...guests, including New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Chicago Merchant and Publisher Marshall Field Jr., and Jackie's sister Princess Radziwill, met in the Kennedys' private apartment for dinner and cocktails. Said the President to Stravinsky: "You have been through many things in your life. People have thrown sticks and tomatoes at you. Now you are here, and we are delighted to have you. You have enriched the world...
...National Student Association, sponsor of the Freedom Fund, is acting under a resolution adopted at last summer's national congress directing the Association to lend full support to SNCC activities. Williams, a former student body president at Jackson State College, was thrown out of school early this year for his part in several segregation protests...