Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when most boatmen have thrown away their snow shovels and hibernated, headed for a warm bar, or returned to work, the varsity sailing team has scheduled one, last, never-say-die regatta...
...black nations and appointed vigorous Ambassador Murad Ghaleb as Cairo's man on the board of the Congo's informal Diplomatic Society for the Preservation of Patrice Lumumba. But last week, soon after Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian charge d'affaires was thrown out on his ear for overzealous tinkering in local affairs, the Congo's President Kasavubu bluntly invited Nasser to withdraw the U.A.R.'s plotting Ghaleb and staff as well. Astonished at this ingratitude, Nasser turned to an old Cairo weapon of reprisal: nationalization. Since the Congo itself owns nothing in Egypt...
...PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...
...struggle running against wily old Chancellor Adenauer, 84. Brandt showed he was ready to take some lessons from a man almost his own age, Jack Kennedy. If elected, Brandt promised that Germany would move forward to become a "model state" but not "a sleepy welfare state." Brandt has already thrown overboard most of the Marxist trappings of his party. In foreign policy, he said, Germany must stand firmly in the Western camp: "We do not wander between the fronts. We know where we belong." Brandt sat down to great cheers. Postwar Germany, until now dominated by Adenauer, is plainly...
...stress of technological change or competition from more efficient plants elsewhere. The textile industry has moved out of New England for the South's lower wages. In Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, automation in the coal mines and a national shift from coal to oil and gas have thrown thousands out of work. Modernization of the steel industry, abetted by a slump in steel sales is pushing Youngstown and Pittsburgh toward the depressed category...