Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to run by the opponent's strength and by how good the whole thing will look to the crowd. Whether the new emphasis on the public impact of the space program will be constructively integrated into the whole program, or whether valid scientific goals will be thrown to the propaganda winds, is the question that faces Kennedy. There are several pieces of evidence as to which course he will take...
...glimpse of Göring at the Nürnberg trial, head thrown back, laughing and laughing and laughing...
about everybody has returned from spring vacation, President Kennedy has thrown out the opening-day baseball, and although Cambridge weather has dumped garbage on it all, the spring sports season is fully under...
Poacher & Herpetologist. Snake-fashion, CJ.P. (for Constantine John Philip) Ionides sheds skins of identity almost from birth. He first shed the name Constantine, which he detested, and became Bobby, because he was always "bobbitting about." In 1917 he was thrown out of Rugby on circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic...
...worn the same conical felt hat, begrimed with sweat and snake venom, since 1940. Peering out from its ragged brim with his satyrlike half-smile, the snake man looks rather like an ageless faun out of pagan mythology. At his death, he intends to have his body thrown to the hyenas since "one of the most stupid premises is that life is, in some peculiar way, sacred...