Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic presidential nomination. In Annapolis he committed himself to Maryland's primary (May 17, 24 delegate votes) and got the reluctant backing of Maryland's Governor Millard Tawes, who had really wanted to run as a favorite son himself. In Charleston he took up a challenge thrown by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey to fight it out in West Virginia (May 10, 25 delegate votes). In Gary he dealt himself into...
...eyes in India were on Kerala, a hard-up state whose 16 million inhabitants make it as populous as Canada. The question was whether Kerala, which voted Communist in 1957 and endured 28 months of chaotic Red rule, would vote Communist again. After all, the Reds had not been thrown out at the polls but removed from office on orders from New Delhi. This time the non-Communists were taking no chances. They borrowed freely from successful Communist tricks ranging from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests...
...shuttled back and forth between the French army and the insurgent barricades, on one occasion was held for half an hour by a band of trigger-happy insurgents who feared that publicity would expose them to ultimate government reprisal. Once he had his story, he faced the communications barriers thrown up by French military censorship, not the least of which was that getting to the censor meant climbing 492 steps...
...Pounds of Iron. In February 1928 Betancourt and his friends organized a week of student protest. An intense, curly-haired young man in black beret and spectacles, Betancourt delivered an impassioned anti-Gómez speech in a movie theater. Four days later he was thrown into a Gómez dungeon, clamped in 96 pounds of leg irons...
...commendable. Dr. Pusey was far less a creature of the flaccid fifties than President Eisenhower, of our political capital; one must look abroad to find a match for the scope and imagination of the Program for Harvard College, since the "Great Leap Forward" is its only contender. We have thrown up our fat, white hands and decided that Mr. Bundy is neither a wicked man nor a bad dean...