Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already set off for Paris, were picked up on the road. After 45 hours' interrogation, Raymond Rolland fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said he had thrown it; the last $11,500 of the ransom money was found locked in the trunk of Larcher's Fiat...
...classroom lectures; by phone, parents belabor the offending teacher and his principal for apologies and admissions of guilt. A Wichita businessman who planned to make a modest contribution to a University of Wichita fund was dissuaded because members of the society were demanding that certain professors and books be thrown out. "My business would be wrecked," said he, "if those people got on the phone and kept on yelling that I am a Communist because I give money to the school." Society members in Nashville, Tenn., started telephone campaigns to warn homeowners that some of their neighbors were suspected Reds...
...Crimson's Stan Doten, who has thrown the 35-1b, weight 64 ft., 5 1/2 in., would be the most overwhelming favorite in the Games if he did not have to contend with his own teammate, Ted Bailey...
...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...When a girl enters Penn, she is thrown into a predominantly social atmosphere," commented Mereille Lellouche, Penn '62. "It is much harder to find an education there...