Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that students whose evening hours are spent in Widener's reading rooms don't enjoy the easily-heard music, they say, but many reading types have had their timing thrown off by strange tempos, and are rapidly regressing to their old five w.p.m. speed...
...students, who marched through the streets and then camped in the Square. Cambridge police thought that the fun was over and decided that tear gas would send the boys home to their books. It did, Groaned a dean, "What a night!" Tension mounted, six students were thrown into paddy wagons, and the deans were "disgusted." Either before or during the furor, College officials searched through the records under "R" for suitable public statements on riots; later they quoted remarks that sounded amazingly like those by deans in former years...
Just before the legislature adjourned last week, Governor Swainson really enraged the Republicans: he vetoed a bill that would have barred payments of state unemployment benefits to Michigan employees thrown out of work by the effects of an out-of-state strike (as in the case of a Michigan auto company that laid off men after its Ohio supplier plant was struck by the United Auto Workers). The Republicans shouted that Swainson, like Soapy before him, was playing the U.A.W. game. Retorted Swainson: "Strictly a political charge, of course." Thus the brief romance between John Swainson and the Michigan legislature...
...Kennedy is just treacherous, that's what he is. I don't trust him and he don't trust me." A hurt tone crept into Patterson's voice. "To say that I couldn't enforce the law is the worst insult they could have thrown at me. The Kennedys couldn't get enough votes in Alabama this morning to wad buckshot...
...than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon are thrown in free...