Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian development. In Burma, where Communists' parliamentary strength was sliced from 45 to three in last month's elections, Khrushchev passed over local Reds to praise U Nu as "a great peace fighter." And in Indonesia, the Communist boss of the country's trade unions was thrown into jail shortly after paying a visit to Khrushchev...
Democrat Chough was a disciple of Rhee's from 1911-when they met in the Seoul Y.M.C.A.-until 1952, when Rhee had Chough beaten up and thrown into jail for 27 days. It had been Rhee, one of Woodrow Wilson's favorite students at Princeton, who persuaded Chough's father to send the 16-year-old boy to study in the U.S. Taking a Ph.D. at Columbia, Chough returned to Korea to teach economics and to preach anti-Japanese nationalism. The Japanese jailed him for five years...
Adults and schoolchildren downed the mixture at a gulp. For infants, the vaccine was usually put in a plastic teaspoon, sterile from a fresh pack. The teaspoon was thrown away after...
...latticed steel pylon in the North African desert. The eye-melting flash turned the sky into brighter-than-day, and a mountain range on the horizon was illuminated like a stage setting. As the shock wave rolled outward, two men in Hammoudia blockhouse ten miles away were thrown on their faces. With this nuclear bang, set off last week in the heart of the Sahara, France shouldered its way into the world Atomic Club, as Member...
Eskimos take creativity for granted and find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to collect something another person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured...